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homelessness

Devra Edelman
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: She works to bring homeless people inside 

by Liz Harris January 4, 2021
Youth Spirit's Tiny House Village in Oakland will begin housing homeless youth in January 2021. (Photo/Daniel Arauz)
Posted inUncategorized

Tiny colorful houses for homeless Oakland youth almost ready

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky December 4, 2020December 4, 2020
Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. (Photo/Noah Berger)
Posted inNews

Meet the homelessness expert helping lead pandemic response in S.F.

Andrew Esensten by Andrew Esensten May 25, 2020May 25, 2020
Travel trailers used to house homeless people during the coronavirus pandemic in East Oakland. (Photo/City of Oakland)
Posted inPhilanthropy

Taubes help fund coronavirus housing for Oakland homeless

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman May 11, 2020May 11, 2020
Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's District Attorney-elect, at a fundraiser earlier this year. (Courtesy Chesa Boudin)
Posted inNews

Chesa Boudin, San Francisco’s D.A.-elect, talks homelessness, Jewishness and taking on the establishment

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 26, 2019January 8, 2020
Ari Neulight
Posted inTalking With ...

Q&A: How he wins the trust of homeless residents of People’s Park

Robert Nagler Miller by Robert Nagler Miller November 6, 2019November 6, 2019
Rabbi Michael Lezak serving a guest at one of Glide's daily free meals. /Alain McLaughlin
Posted inBay Area, News

The Tenderloin Rebbe brings prosecutors face-to-face with homelessness

Elissa Einhorn by Elissa Einhorn October 31, 2019October 31, 2019
Los Angeles recently restored regulations barring people from sleeping at night in their vehicles. (Photo/RNS-AP Photo-Damian Dovarganes)
Posted inCalifornia

L.A. congregation Ikar opens its parking lot to people living in cars

by Alejandra Molina and RNS September 26, 2019
a vivid painting of a goat in the desert
Posted inTorah

On S.F. streets, it’s too easy to cast out human ‘scapegoats’

Rabbi Amy Eilberg by Rabbi Amy Eilberg May 2, 2019May 3, 2019
Youth Spirit Artworks teens and staff (clockwise from left) Jackson Hardamon, Mary Stackiewicz, Jordan Foster and Jason Wilson (Photo/Maya Mirsky)
Posted inBay Area, News

Interfaith coalition building tiny houses for homeless youth

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 16, 2019April 18, 2019

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