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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995.

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The rising tide of encampment sweeps in Oakland

By Alastair Boone on May 7, 2025
News
How the city’s changing homelessness strategy is on display at Lake Merritt. By Alastair Boone

A note on our August 2024 cover

By Laura A. Zink on August 5, 2024
First-person   Opinion
Which Bay Area cities will use a Fairyland excuse? Will yours? We’ll have to keep watching to find out.

Oakland bans camping around Lake Merritt

By Alastair Boone on March 1, 2019
Features   News
The City of Oakland has started enforcing a zero-tolerance camping ban around Lake Merritt.



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