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Court could weigh in on whether cities and states can shut down homeless encampments but it could also define what it means to provide shelter

OAKLAND, Calif. — John Janosko recently moved into a tiny cabin in Oakland, after the city and the state shut down the sprawling homeless encampment where he had resided for most of the past eight years. City officials consider the shed-size unit — with a bed, a folding chair, a desk and a mini fridge — a vast improvement over the makeshift shelters that once sat beneath a freeway. That’s not how Janosko sees it. He says he does not have keys to the free cabin that th...

One of the state’s largest homeless encampments was recently shut down in Oakland, but that didn’t stop the problem of homelessness.

The city of Oakland started to clear out the remaining 60 residents from Wood Street, once the largest homeless encampment in Northern California.

From cheerful murals, to a gut-wrenching play, to a news show shot from an encampment, works of art are springing from the Bay Area's homeless communities.

A large community of unhoused people have been living in an empty lot at 1707 Wood Street. The city of Oakland would like to remove them as soon as possible so they can build 170 units of affordable housing there. If you live in Oakland or spend any considerable amount of time here, then you have probably seen this encampment at least a few times. The West Oakland community is estimated to include 200-300 individuals. They support each other in accessing food, water, medicine, clothing and othe...

The destruction of the camp that was home to over 300 unhoused people in Oakland laid bare the brutality of capitalism.

Few are feeling the rage of California's storms as much as the state's 170,000 homeless people.

It’s been a long-term problem addressing the homeless crisis in Oakland and now those at the center of the fight are trying their own solutions.  

Yet again, unhoused Oakland residents, formerly of the Wood Street encampment, were cleared from another Caltrans property at 34th Street and Mandela Parkway. Caltrans said they were illegally on the site.