Homelessness

At a park named for indigenous people, a homeless community faces eviction

A crackdown on Where Do We Go Berkeley in Ohlone Park raises the question: Do we all have the right to feel safe in public?

Homelessness Tiny - May 25, 2025

UPDATED: 48 Hills wins 16 California Journalism Awards

Our fiercely independent reporting scored awards for General Excellence, Best Column, Arts Coverage, Homeless Reporting, more

News + Politics Marke B. - May 18, 2025

Sanctuaries not sweeps

Houseless and housed communities from across the Bay stand together to resist the endless erasure of houseless peoples, demand sanctuary lands so we can build solutions

Homelessness Tiny - May 10, 2025

Fielder proposal to protect unhoused families runs into opposition from ‘moderates’

Sauter, Sherrill try to kill a measure that would give a bit of hope to some of the city's most vulnerable residents

Homelessness Tim Redmond - April 19, 2025

Homelessness

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

Tiny - March 31, 2025

Alameda County Fairgrounds stops horse racing—so stable workers lose their jobs, and their homes

Homelessness

Death by homeless sweep in Vallejo

Tiny - March 13, 2025

James Edward Oakley crushed by a city backhoe 'cleaning' a homeless camp

Homelessness

The brutality of ‘homeless cold’

Tiny - February 16, 2025

Mourning houseless babies in Detroit, Cornelius Taylor in Atlanta, and anyone in Fremont

Homelessness

It’s an emergency every day when you live on the streets

Tiny - January 14, 2025

There's hardly any discussion of the impact fires and floods and storms have on the unhoused

Homelessness

Peaceful protests by unhoused in SF and other cities lead to massive police sweeps

Tiny - December 23, 2024

Dozens of cops drive people in tents away from City Hall—and the empty, vacant Civic Center Inn, which could be housing

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Homelessness

Street Sheet turns 35

Megan Robertson - December 13, 2024

Paper by and for the unhoused has become a civic treasure—and its editor looks forward to the day when it's no longer needed.

Homelessness

When public land isn’t public for all

Tiny - December 10, 2024

If you so much as 'look homeless,' you can be forced out of what's supposed to be common space.

Homelessness

Death by bullying: The fate of an unhoused high school student

Tiny - November 25, 2024

Our society teaches that wealth hoarding is admirable, and poor people are something to avoid. Sometimes, that leads to death.

Homelessness

How will Lurie address the crisis of homelessness?

TJ Johnston - November 13, 2024

Advocates lay out demands—and have some hope—for the next mayor.

Homelessness

‘Where Do We Go’ launches new campaign against homeless sweeps

Tiny - October 20, 2024

Organizers vow to set up new encampments in public spaces every time cities evict the unhoused.

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Homelessness

Scenes from the Poor People’s March in Chicago ….

Tiny - August 22, 2024

... And the eviction of Wood Street in Oakland.

Homelessness

Bus tickets to anywhere and pain on the streets as Breed, Newsom attack unhoused

Tiny - August 13, 2024

Man who has no family in Salinas is urged to go there anyway. Welcome to Breed's new homeless program.

Housing

Watch: Westside RV community faces another mass displacement

Andrew Brobst and Erika Carlos - August 8, 2024

Parking enforcement deadline approaches, throwing dozens of unhoused families into uncertainty.

Housing

Watch: The devastating impact of Breed’s cruel new homeless sweeps

Andrew Brobst - August 3, 2024

The mayor's aggressive new policy wreaks havoc on unhoused peoples' lives. We spoke with Frank, one of the displaced.

Campaign Trail

Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign

Christopher D. Cook - August 2, 2024

Stealing people's possessions and moving them around town solves nothing—but it makes for mayoral politics.

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Homelessness

At a park named for indigenous people, a homeless community faces eviction

UPDATED: 48 Hills wins 16 California Journalism Awards

Sanctuaries not sweeps

Fielder proposal to protect unhoused families runs into opposition from ‘moderates’

Workers, families face eviction as racetrack in Pleasanton closes abruptly

Death by homeless sweep in Vallejo

The brutality of ‘homeless cold’

It’s an emergency every day when you live on the streets

Peaceful protests by unhoused in SF and other cities lead to massive police sweeps

Street Sheet turns 35

When public land isn’t public for all

Death by bullying: The fate of an unhoused high school student

How will Lurie address the crisis of homelessness?

‘Where Do We Go’ launches new campaign against homeless sweeps

Scenes from the Poor People’s March in Chicago ….

Bus tickets to anywhere and pain on the streets as Breed, Newsom attack unhoused

Watch: Westside RV community faces another mass displacement

Watch: The devastating impact of Breed’s cruel new homeless sweeps

Mayor makes inhumane, ineffective sweeps a major part of her re-election campaign

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