Homelessness

Bill 302 Dies — But For Wrong Reasons

Opie James

Senate Bill 827 only fixes ‘corporate housing crisis’

By Sarah Carpenter

Letters to the Editor

Oakland needs to help its homeless

I want to share with you my thoughts on existing here in Oakland. I am a 20-year-old psychology major, and I have worked and attended school here for three years.

The issue of homelessness

Reading the Laney Tower for the first time has given me an appreciation which I had not expected to find. 
I would like to thank the Tower for its approach to the issue of homelessness. 
I’ve spent many nights on the streets even when I had a roof to hide under. 
Like many of your…

Letters to the editor

Problems without solutions

I appreciate the Laney Tower’s attempt to humanize a problem many would rather ignore. 
The paper took many steps forward in defining the problems that create homelessness, but failed to deliver a coherent story that…

Letters to the Editor — Homelessness is a real issue

Editor — I read “A new home in writing” (Tower/April 7) not quite knowing what to expect. For various reasons, writing is an interesting subject to me, so I began reading. 
The title is a bit misleading, as the real story here is the…

Health, homelessness, and H.R. 2646

For the last fifty years Americans with severe mental illness have lacked appropriate care. Many are homeless and live on the streets. Still more have been trapped in the prison system, often for decades.

A new home in writing

Memories of teenage homelessness shape adulthood for creative writer

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Facing homelessness head-on

The Homelessness issue: Part 2

Homeless students struggle, succeed

When Laney College student Darrell Brown got divorced in 2000, he found himself homeless. 
Brown was working three…

A Modern Dark Age

Homelessness is not a faceless collective, distinct from the rest of society. Yet our collective consciousness usually leaves…