Oakland City Council: support solutions over sweeps
By Armando Solorzano on The Encampment Abatement Policy will harm health, violate rights, and divert funding from essential services. Community-based solutions are the answer.
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How We Got Here
By Amber Whitson on Unhoused activist Amber Whitson dispels a growing fiction: Evicting Berkeley's largest encampment will not solve homelessness.
Behind the Lens: Wood Street (2026)
By Caron Creighton on Filmmaker Caron Creighton sits down with resident-leaders and participants of the feature documentary Wood Street (2026).
Cooked out: Permanent supportive housing units excluded from statewide kitchen appliance law
By Jordan Wasilewski on California landlords must provide refrigerators to their tenants, except those living in permanent supportive housing
A Message from The Warming Hut Project
By The Warming Hut Project on 'The Warming Hut has been bringing people together, housed and not, and that is the real warmth.'
Inside the PIT count: Can Oakland’s homeless census ever be accurate?
By Zack Haber on Zack Haber rides along in Oakland for the 2026 Point-in-Time count, a bi-annual census of unhoused people that’s recorded in just seven hours.
Sidewalk Stories: How do unhoused people stay informed?
By Alastair Boone on Our increasingly digital world can make it nearly impossible for unhoused people to find up-to-date information.
Show up, show out: it’s time to stand with our humanity
By Amber Whitson on A row of RVs slated for removal in West Berkeley. Photo by Amber Whitson. First They Came (2025–26 version)First they
Flock camera surveillance has eyes all over Berkeley, but at what cost?
By Berkeley Copwatch on "Flock cameras pose serious threats to the privacy and safety of our community."
Ninth Circuit upholds Alfred v. Vallejo decision, setting legal precedent
By Robbie Powelson on 'The decision sets a precedent for future challenges against encampment sweeps under the Fourteenth Amendment’s State-Created Danger Doctrine'
El Sueño Gabacho: Living undocumented and unhoused
By María on 'We are guerreros. We never bend the knee. We move forward.'
Dispatches from the sweep zone: Looming escalations
By Sunflower on 'The only defense is to organize.'