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What is a home? 

By Inti Gonzalez on August 5, 2024
Commentary   First-person   Opinion
"The beautiful people of Oakland are what keep the city alive. But they are leaving too, the great majority of them not by choice."

From Oakland to Frisco, ‘solutions’ created by politricksters are killing us, not housing us

By Tiny on March 1, 2024
Commentary   Opinion
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.

Oakland attempts to curb the homeless health crisis with street medicine

By Chris Lee on November 22, 2023
News
Homeless deaths have surged in recent years. In Oakland, chronic illness and addictions make up most of homeless deaths by 47% and 31%, respectively.

Symbiosis

By Arcenia Macedo Sixto on June 30, 2023
First-person
The moment I was able to understand as a child that I was considered an alien in the United States,



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