How to vote without a traditional address
By Alastair Boone on Unhoused and unsure how to vote? Street Spirit's Alastair Boone breaks down the process.
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A note on our August 2024 cover
By Laura A. Zink on Which Bay Area cities will use a Fairyland excuse? Will yours? We’ll have to keep watching to find out.
Oakland’s Driver Plaza, longtime hub for Black seniors, can keep its Porta Potty—for now
By Ariel Boone on The people who use the space during the day needed a Porta Potty there, so the community paid for one. But since its arrival in May, the toilet has come under attack.
In Dialogue with Dr. Jason Reinking—aka “Dr. Jay”—of LifeLong Medical Care
By Ricky Rodas on Dr. Jay speaks about how unsheltered people can protect themselves during these tough times, and what their housed neighbors can do to provide support.
The girl
By Amber Whitson on On August 13, 2012, I was at home in my tent at the Albany Bulb, taking pictures of my clothing after I finally sorted all of it. Being a perfectionist, I took two pictures from each angle. I figured that I would review the pictures after I was done, keep the best ones from each angle and delete the other ones.
‘Where Do We Go?’
By Alastair Boone on A movement is growing in Berkeley, where unhoused people are demanding answers.
Complaints against the homeless could backfire
By Kheven LaGrone on in April of 2018, the City of Oakland launched “OAK 311”—an app and web service that was built to make
Affordable housing: One size does not fit all
By Andy Pope on As the homelessness crisis worsens, cities all over the U.S. are desperately trying to come up with solutions. California, for example, is in a frenzy to build new homeless shelters that will fit thousands of new shelter beds.
Disability insurance is a poverty trap August 2019
By Jack Bragen on If you are unable to work competitively due to a disability and you receive benefits because of this, it isn’t free money—it comes with certain costs. Disability benefits and SSI are set up to impose limitations in what you can and can’t do.
Vida: bookworm, caretaker, mountaineer
By Julia Irwin on In West Berkeley, not far from Fourth Street’s bright, bustling retail mecca, rows of old trailers hide in the shadows
Homeless voices shine in photography show
By Julia Irwin on Fine art photographer Kirti Bassendine was appalled when friends returning to England from their visit to San Francisco posted vitriolic sentiments about the SF’s “homeless problem” to their social media page; voicing their disgust with the trash, needles, feces, and people on the streets, they warned others not to visit.