Stories and
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November 2005
Street Spirit Publication
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The Struggle to Save the
Free Box - For more than a decade, a container known as the "free
box" has been in place at People's Park in Berkeley. People who wanted
to discard unwanted clothes could use the free box to give clothing to
homeless people who frequent the Park.
It Takes a Community to
Rebuild A Box - The meeting is about
rebuilding the free-clothing box, a long-term People's Park tradition
until somebody burned it down many months ago. And then somebody burned
the new free-clothing box which folks built to replace the old one....
Gentrification in Berkeley:
Whose Housing First? - National
Homelessness Week is observed in mid-November; it is the traditional
time each year when we seek to call attention to the problems of
homelessness. Even as the national observance approaches this year,
several problems threaten to worsen the situation of homeless people in
Berkeley.
'Housing First' for San
Francisco's Homeless Families - Homeless families camped out at San
Francisco City Hall under Mayor Gavin Newsom's office balcony on
Thursday, October 20, 2005. Their goal was to hold Newsom to the promise
he had made on October 13 to focus on housing families "first."
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