Community grows on Wood Street
By Dayton Andrews on Faced with displacement, bonds between residents are strengthening Located at the edge of West Oakland, it spans several blocks along
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Berkeley’s Downtown Streets Team helps people learn how to care again
By Timothy Busby on 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
Editor’s note: This story was produced in partnership with the Community Based Newsroom, and is part of “The Right to
Money buys choices and I don’t have it
By Jack Bragen on I’m prefacing this essay with a personal statement: I’m in favor of money and I’m in favor of me having
Homeless in Trump’s America
By Peter Y. Sussman on A man who lives at taxpayer expense in luxurious public housing in Washington, D.C. has started a campaign against those who aren’t so lucky. There’s something that repels him about homeless people, and in two appearances in recent months, the president began to clarify what it is.
Correcting misconceptions about homelessness
By Timothy Busby on I have a group page where I post stories and also answer questions about homelessness. Recently, someone posted the following
Berkeley homeless services imperiled
By Susan Black on At the Berkeley city council meet- ing on May 21, Berkeley’s City Manager unveiled her budget proposal for the next four years. This proposed budget would eliminate $223,356 from Dorothy Day House’s proposed funding. This amounts to a 20 percent cut in the money we will receive from the city.
Which comes first: homelessness or drug use?
By Andy Pope on “Does the crackhead become homeless, or does the homeless person become a crackhead?” This question was posed on the website
The economy of prison and homelessness
By Kevin D. Sawyer on The United States misappropriates resources (including the human ones) in a business-as-usual profit over people custom. For decades, the U.S. prison industrial complex has embraced tough-on-crime legislation to branch its growth through the incarceration of its citizens. One of the many downsides of this policy is the increase in people living in squalor while others are “sheltered” in the name of public safety.