Alastair Boone
Beat Reporting FellowAlastair Boone is the Director of Street Spirit newspaper, and an alumn of KALW's 2024 Audio Academy.
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CrosscurrentsCities around the Bay Area have been debating how to handle people camping in public places or living in RVs. Oakland may follow suit. -
CrosscurrentsA homeless shelter in Oakland closed this week. But things did not go as expected—here's how. -
CrosscurrentsSidewalk Stories celebrates pride month with two queer poets who have experience with homelessness. -
CrosscurrentsA look at one city's approach to encampment management, one year after the Supreme Court's Grants Pass ruling. -
CrosscurrentsFor unhoused people, "street names" are monikers — chosen or assigned — that often take the place of the names they were assigned as children. But what are the stories behind these names, and what purpose do they serve? -
CrosscurrentsAs encampment management policies become stricter all over the Bay Area, unhoused people are using the courts to fight back. Here, the story of one man's fight to stay in his RV shines a light on what's at stake for the future of lawsuits like his. -
CrosscurrentsThe Albany bulb is a beloved fixture of the East Bay shoreline. People visit for kite flying, dog walking and the culture of renegade art making. Today, we go out to the bulb with some former inhabitants to hear their story of a community that made the bulb a home. -
CrosscurrentsKevin Fagan, is an award-winning journalist, with over 40 years covering homelessness and poverty. Kevin is recently retired from the San Francisco Chronicle, and has tapped into his reporting experience to write a novel called “The Lost and the Found.” -
CrosscurrentsTo understand the lived challenges and real solutions unhoused people and their advocates are working for, KALW recently hosted a live panel as part of our Bay Agenda series. -
CrosscurrentsFor trans people experiencing homelessness, accessing gender affirming resources can be a challenge. This is the second installment of Sidewalk Stories.
