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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Mandela House is one of three interim housing programs set to close in Oakland this year. -
Alameda County released the preliminary results of the biannual Point-in-Time Count on Tuesday. -
CrosscurrentsIllegal dumping is a big problem in Oakland. Today, we’ll from unhoused people about how the excess garbage that accumulates around encampments impacts their daily lives — and, some of the strategies they use to manage it. -
CrosscurrentsA homeless shelter in Oakland called Mandela House is closing on May 29. Its purpose was to get unhoused people into permanent housing. But Residents say they haven’t found housing, and now they’re protesting the program’s closure. -
The new policy says Oakland can tow RVs and close encampments without always offering shelter. -
The 5th Street Apartments — a transitional housing program for unhoused youth — will be closing at the end of May. -
CrosscurrentsTwo women in Richmond traverse the transition from homelessness to housing. -
CrosscurrentsThis week's Sidewalk Stories dives into how unhoused people get information — from news and history to the time and weather. -
The city used some new methodology to conduct its biannual tally of unhoused people. -
A controversial new encampment policy was not discussed at yesterday's council meeting as planned.
