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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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Everyone deserves to shelter in place, including homeless people

By TJ Johnston on May 22, 2020
First-person   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
“Sheltering in place” is a privilege that over 9,000 unhoused San Franciscans do not enjoy. Yet, shelters are congregate environments where people sleep barely more than two feet away from one another, head to foot or top to bottom in bunks.

Lost mothers

By Mavin Carter-Griffin on May 12, 2020
First-person   Opinion
An ode to those celebrating Mother's Day on the street.

The pandemic resembles one of my psychotic episodes

By Jack Bragen on April 1, 2020
First-person   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
The current pandemic makes it seem as though the world has gone insane. This time, I'm not crazy, but neither are other people. Reality has taken a surreal turn.

A taste of homelessness

By Timothy Busby on April 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
I can’t help but think to myself, “now the general population is getting a taste of what we, the homeless, face everyday.”

Street Sheet’s weekly COVID-19 policy recommendations

By The Coalition on Homelessness on April 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
The Coalition on Homelessness is closely following policy related to COVID-19 and homelessness. Here are their top shelf policy recommendations.

“The issue of homelessness and housing in America has been a tinderbox waiting to catch fire for generations.”

By Israel Bayer on April 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
For many people living and working on the front lines of homelessness, COVID-19 represents the deadly serious reality that people already live with every single day.

I’m not ready to give up: a victory for homeless rights

By Mike Zint on March 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
This article originally appeared in the People’s Tribune in July of 2015. What we have here is an occupation, a

Community grows on Wood Street

By Dayton Andrews on March 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
Faced with displacement, bonds between residents are strengthening Located at the edge of West Oakland, it spans several blocks along

The day I lost my campsite

By Ace Backwords on March 1, 2020
First-person   Opinion
Everything is in a state of chaos and complete upheaval at my campsite in the Berkeley hills. They’re doing a

Berkeley’s Downtown Streets Team helps people learn how to care again

By Timothy Busby on March 1, 2020
Commentary   Opinion
Through the long hard process of becoming homeless, you break, lose sight of the basic values of life and become depressed to a level only the home- less few experiences.

I am one of the 400 homeless youth in Berkeley

February 1, 2020
Arts and Culture   Commentary   Opinion   YSA youth contributions
Editor’s note: This story was produced in partnership with the Community Based Newsroom, and is part of “The Right to

Life is all a pose

By Ace Backwords on February 1, 2020
First-person   Opinion
Life is all a pose in a way. And I don’t mean that in a fake way. We all have
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