Alastair Boone
Beat Reporting FellowAlastair Boone is KALW's homelessness reporter. She is also the Director of Street Spirit newspaper, and an alumn of KALW's 2024 Audio Academy.
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Community members have been stationed outside Highland Hospital in Oakland to call attention to a patient in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. -
CrosscurrentsAs Bay Area cities start to release the full results of their 2026 Point-in-Time homeless counts, we dig into why it’s so hard to count how many people experience homelessness in our communities. -
A federal judge has closed out a long-running legal battle over a homeless encampment in Berkeley. -
CrosscurrentsA small nonprofit is helping homeless people by caring for their pets -
Alameda County workers and organizers got together on Tuesday to celebrate getting one step closer to a future where minimum wage workers earn $30 an hour. -
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.
