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Governor’s task force to eradicate homeless encampments

September 23, 2025 Marisa Kendall and Cal Matters

Governor Gavin Newsom’s homelessness task force targets encampments.

black and white image of tents set up in the early 1930s in Oakland, dubbed "Pipe City"
Feature

Pipe Dreams: Makeshift Living in Oakland is Nothing New

May 11, 2021 Kat Ferreira

Oakland Voices correspondent Kat Ferreira digs into the history of unhoused populations in Oakland, from Pipe City to the current encampments at the same location.

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COVID-19

Love and Justice in the Streets’ Talya Husbands-Hankin sees homelessness as “absolute human rights violation”

June 2, 2020 Iris Crawford

“What COVID-19 shows us is that we are all connected, so if we don’t take care of the most vulnerable, everyone will be impacted.”

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