Stories and
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April 2006
Street Spirit Publication
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Transportation Justice Is Derailed by MTC Inaction - The
Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) met on March 22, 2006, to
decide whether to adopt the long-awaited Environmental Justice
principles proposed to reform public transit in the East Bay. These
principles would help meet the needs of low-income and minority
communities by assuring that the burdens of transportation decisions by
the MTC don't fall heavily on them, and the benefits of transportation
investments are not denied them.
Car Wreck Plunges a
Grandmother into Homelessness - What I have gone through should not
happen to anyone. Poverty should not exist. It must not exist. Food,
housing and clothing are rights, not privileges.
Victory in Marin for Disabled
Tenant - Only a few hours after my article about the upcoming
eviction of disabled tenant Christine McPherson was sent to the Marin
Housing Authority, MHA officials called McPherson, and told her that she
would be allowed to stay in her housing and they would not terminate her
Section 8 contract.
Hate Crimes in the Nation's
Most Liberal Cities - The assaults and murders of homeless people
often occur in the dead of night. This is the dark night of the soul. It
falls every night, in every city, from sea to shining sea.
The Bay Area Loses Two
Eloquent Homeless Voices - The Bay Area lost two eloquent advocates
for homeless people in March. Kevin McFarren, a Berkeley writer and
homeless advocate, and Dee, one-half of the mother/daughter duo that
created Poor News Network, both died.
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