Inside Oakland’s encampment management strategy
By Freeway on "In less than a month’s time, the sweeps that plagued our communities went from useless, annoying, and traumatic to violent, sudden, and criminal."
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From Oakland to Frisco, ‘solutions’ created by politricksters are killing us, not housing us
By Tiny on These “solutions” to homelessness—created “about us but without us”—are not only bound to fail, but bound to harm, often leading to our deaths.
The End of an Era for Street Spirit
By Alastair Boone on After nearly 28 years of uplifting the voices and stories of homeless people in the East Bay, this may be our last issue. Here's an update of our future goals, fundraising efforts, and the future of Street Spirit.
Decolonizing Homelessness
By Tiny on Poverty has been a consumer product of krapitalism since the settlers first came here. As a matter of fact, poverty and disability was a crime in all the countries the settlers came from.
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
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