First One Breath, Then Another
By Tim Rudolph on 'Here’s to the famished / lion who refuses to eat the lamb.'
Homelessness
Oakland protest leads to invitation from city administrator’s office
By Bradley Penner on "We need to get people off the street and into a safer environment while they’re waiting for permanent housing.”
Tents and bars: the cycle between homelessness and incarceration
By Beth Divakaran and Anna Steiner on We cannot police our way out of a housing crisis or sweep the needs of our neighbors away.
Where do we go?: The question hits the pavement
By Bradley Penner on A local nonprofit goes on the offensive as the City of Berkeley prepares to sweep a number of long-standing encampments without guaranteed offers of shelter.
No storage, no shelter: Oakland’s MLK sweep leaves many residents behind
By Yesica Prado on After the sweep of a long-standing encampment, residents were left without shelter and their belongings destroyed, as key local policies on transparency and safety were ignored.
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.
Homeless at the Piano
By Andy Pope on I think it was this. I had gotten so used to only being accepted by people who were outside, and being looked down upon by people who lived inside, I couldn’t imagine them doing anything other than to look down on me, even as I played the piano.
Clarence Galtney: The OG of Harrison Street
By Bradley Penner on As mounting pressure from the city of Berkeley brings 8th and Harrison to its breaking point, one resident sheds light through the cracks.
Oakland attempts to curb the homeless health crisis with street medicine
By Chris Lee on Homeless deaths have surged in recent years. In Oakland, chronic illness and addictions make up most of homeless deaths by 47% and 31%, respectively.
San Francisco activists say: No to APEC!
By Joemae Santos on Image courtesy of Western Regional Advocacy Project (WRAP). This year, San Francisco will host the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
Their original faces: a soul, not a homeless person
By Jesse Mentken on "I do not think of people as homeless; I think of people as having been betrayed," Mentken writes.
Why would anyone want to live on the street?
By Timothy Busby on Only after I accepted the fact that the person I was before was never coming back…could I begin to accept another life.