Love in the Time of Sweeps: A Couple’s Fight to Find Shelter Together
By Bradley Penner and Alastair Boone on One couple’s struggle to access resources after an encampment sweep sheds light on one way the coordinated entry process breaks down.
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Introducing this issue
Within this issue you will find stories of displacement and struggle, calls to action, and dreams of a future where decolonization is not merely a metaphor, but instead, a real return of land to those who have always called this place home.
Our May Cover
Our May 2023 cover.
The organizing power of a Homeless Union
By Alastair Boone on The National Union of the Homeless has been instrumental in securing basic human rights for homeless people for decades. We spoke to founding member, Anthony Prince.
The final stand for Wood Street Commons
By David Bacon on After years of pushing homeless Oakland residents to the site during other encampment closures, Oakland is clearing out what was once the city’s largest unhoused community.
STREET SPIRIT HOROSCOPES: MAY 2023
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on Horoscopes for the month of May, written just for Street Spirit.
Mission Gold:
By Nick Marzano on A magazine exploring the money, magic, and misfits of San Francisco’s shadow economy.
Remembering Michael Delacour, People’s Park co-founder and pillar of Berkeley organizing
By Supriya Yelimeli on Delacour hosted the first meetings to organize and build People’s Park at his Berkeley home in the 1960s.
Why we made our encampment beautiful
By Stefani Echeverría-Fenn on An encampment, like any city neighborhood, draws support and investment when it is beautiful. This safety can be a lifeline for unsheltered communities.
Street Spirit horoscopes: April 2023
By Boudia Crow Lafleur on Horoscopes for the month of April, written just for Street Spirit.
We are hiring!
We are hiring a new Editor in Chief for Street Spirit. This job is full-time and is scheduled to start
40 years of homelessness—a look back through history
By The Western Regional Advocacy Project on Overthrow of neoliberal governance – freaking soon.