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Liza Ramrayka

KALW Audio Academy Fellow '21

Liza Ramrayka is a freelance social justice journalist based in San Francisco and originally from England.

Her storytelling explores aspects of — and solutions to — social exclusion experienced by marginalized communities, such as refugees and people who are housing insecure.

She is a KALW Audio Academy '21 Fellow. 

 

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What More COVID-19 Restrictions Mean For San Francisco This Holiday Season

By • Nov 24, 2020
Vinicius Depizzol / Flickr Creative Commons

San Francisco is set for more restrictions in response to the current rise in COVID-19 cases. What does this mean as the city enters the holiday season?

More Restrictions Ahead As California’s COVID-19 Cases Surge

By • Nov 9, 2020
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California's counties are expected to face more restrictions this week in the wake of a surge in COVID-19 cases.


From Hotels To Homes: How San Francisco Is Rehousing Its Most Vulnerable Homeless People

By • Nov 4, 2020
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On November 3, San Francisco began to phase out a program that provided its most vulnerable unhoused population with hotel rooms during the pandemic.  

PG&E Teams With Local Partners To Support Customers Through Outages

By • Oct 26, 2020
David Prasad / Flickr Creative Commons

 

More than 360,000 homes across 36 counties and 17 tribal lands are affected by the outages that began last night, when gusts of over 70 miles per hour were recorded around the Bay Area. This latest power shutoff is PG&E’s last-resort response to preventing its equipment from malfunctioning and starting fires. 

As California Burns, What Resources Is The State Using To Fight The Flames?

By • Oct 20, 2020
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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection is better known as Cal Fire. This year, it has fully extended its resources to deal with an unprecedented fire season. It has also tapped neighboring states and other partners for extra help fighting fires. 

 

So that got us wondering: what are the big numbers behind the fires? 

 

Alameda County Measure W: Sales Tax To Tackle Homelessness

By & • Sep 30, 2020
Sharon Hahn Darlin / Flickr Creative Commons

 

This is a 2-minute summary of what’s on the ballot. Click here to listen to them all.  

Alameda County Measure W is 0.5% increase on sales tax for the next 10 years, to fund services for homeless people across Alameda County.