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Homelessness

The destruction of a community in Oakland

April 20, 2023

Police, bulldozers evict longtime residents of Wood Street Commons.

Homelessness

From Hooverville to Nicklesville

April 4, 2023

A report from Seattle, where housing built and run by homeless people is having an impact.

Housing

Sweeping in the rain

January 14, 2023

From SoMa to Wood Street Commons, the unhoused suffer as the brutal sweeps continue

Homelessness

Begging, sadly, for protection from eviction at Oakland’s Wood Street community

October 10, 2022

A bicycle convoy to Sacramento shows how legislators duck the crisis.

Homelessness

The exceptional hobo

September 26, 2022

The violence of exceptionalism on stolen land.

Opinion

Academia, displacement, and the dorm-industrial complex

June 22, 2022

From Columbia's Manhattanville to UC Berkeley in People's Park, luxury student housing can lead to gentrification

Education

Fighting the Oakland school closures

February 28, 2022

If I hadn’t had a school to go to with teachers and free breakfast as a houseless child, I literally couldn’t have made it through my life.

Homelessness

A houseless woman gives birth in a porta potty in Oakland—and the baby lives

January 25, 2022

No pre-natal care. Nowhere to go. And yet, thanks to community action, mama and child are okay.

Homelessness

The real, ongoing states of emergency for people who are in poverty

December 30, 2021

Temporary shelter beds and jails don't give people a place to live.

Police

Justice for Tyrell Wilson, homeless and dead in a largely white town

September 27, 2021

The challenges of 'not looking dangerous' in the California suburbs