Tiny, Author at 48 hills

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We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

May 22, 2019

“Excuse me, how many of you are sleeping under there?” a nasal voice yelled into the cardboard box my mama and me were sleeping...

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Homeless, at the airport

April 22, 2019

“Get up, you have to move along…did you hear me? It’s time to move along…” The hard wood of the baton slammed against the...

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Homeless people — in cages

March 23, 2019

Here lies the unhoused soldier Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside -- to hide on a bus bench, away from your...

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The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

March 6, 2019

No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

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Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

December 17, 2018

“This (conservatorship law) sounds like slavery to me,” Memphis, houseless poverty skola reporter for POOR Magazine’s RoofLESS radio, reported after a terrifying town hall on...

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Cooking in your car

August 15, 2018

The smell of salt, grease and fried meat filled the air, with just hint of burnt sugar thrown in. My mind wandered to breakfasts...

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Homelessness and the SF mayor’s race

February 14, 2018

"Don't turn left, because that area is full of ‘bums’ and it doesn’t reflect on the real "San Francisco.” The cab driver clicked his...

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A former Black Panther faces eviction in Oakland

January 2, 2018

"This is the Black Panthers vision, and its being evicted," said Aunti Frances Moore, revolutionary founder of the Self-Help Hunger Program and poverty skola/teacher...

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Always, forced to move

November 26, 2017

The rubber sides of the boat were like arms – thick, round, hard. “These are the boats refugees have to travel through, men...

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From the poor house to the jail house

August 10, 2017

We walk back and forth in a jail cell everyday – it’s called your doorways tent cities Bus benches and Metal chairs...

Tiny

We’ve been counted and studied. We still don’t have homes.

Homeless, at the airport

Homeless people — in cages

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

Conservatorship: The new ‘ugly laws’

Cooking in your car

Homelessness and the SF mayor’s race

A former Black Panther faces eviction in Oakland

Always, forced to move

From the poor house to the jail house

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