Tiny, Author at 48 hills

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

Homelessness

Homelessness—and failed solutions— in Salt Lake City and Denver

August 8, 2021

Sweeps and attacks on the unhoused are not just happening in the Bay Area; it's a national problem.

News + Politics

The indigenous struggle to save trees — and sacred spaces — in Humboldt

June 21, 2021

Between the timber companies and state agencies, so much devastation.

Homelessness

Mother’s Day — for homeless mamas

May 11, 2021

A story of eviction, gentrification, poverty -- and hope.

Movies

Performing poverty in ‘Nomadland’ and ‘White Tiger’

March 7, 2021

Two acclaimed movies from poverty outsiders don't go far enough in exposing wealth-hoarding and corporate slavery.

Homelessness

The bad narrative of ‘bad choices’

February 25, 2021

It's an easy way to look away and blame homelessness on poor people.

Tiny

Academia, displacement, and the dorm-industrial complex

Fighting the Oakland school closures

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

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

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

Homelessness—and failed solutions— in Salt Lake City and Denver

The indigenous struggle to save trees — and sacred spaces — in Humboldt

Mother’s Day — for homeless mamas

Performing poverty in ‘Nomadland’ and ‘White Tiger’

The bad narrative of ‘bad choices’

News

Politics

Arts

Culture