Stories and
Poems from the
September 2006
Street Spirit Publication
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Uncertain Future For Berkeley's
Section 8 Tenants -
Years of negligence and poor management have brought the Berkeley
Housing Authority (BHA) to the brink of collapse, as the blame game
begins and fingerpointing has turned up the heat on BHA Director Steve
Barton and Berkeley City Manager Phil Kamlarz.
Can't Find My Way Home - New
Orleans One Year After Katrina -
If you have seen recent television footage of New Orleans, you probably
have a picture of how bad our housing situation is. What you cannot see
is that the rest of our institutions - our water, our electricity, our
healthcare, our jobs, our educational system, our criminal justice
systems - are all just as broken as our housing.
Memorial to Mary Who Died on
the Street -
She died alone, on the cold concrete in the back of Albertson's parking
lot in Oakland's Lakeshore district. She had been homeless for more
years than anybody could remember.
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