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The UCLA Activist-in-Residence program selected five new residents for its 2024 cycle, which spans from January to May. The program is committed to providing opportunities for a diverse group of Los Angeles activists to strengthen their work in generating social, racial, spatial and gender justice, according to the program’s website.

“We were paying the mortgage and we were current but nothing mattered. She managed to convince the sheriff to evict us.”

Thousands of beautifully built structures stand vacant while thousands of us houseless San Franciscan residents continue to be swept like we are trash. This is an opportunity for hope and life for San Francisco

East Oakland poet Tiny Gray-Garcia aka Poverty Skola reads "this poem is in honor of homeless mothers.”

Support Not Sweeps! Free Homefulness! July 2, 2021 by Tiburcio Garcia and Amir Cornish, Youth Poverty Skola Reporters for POOR Magazine  Editor’s note: Tiburcio and Amir are students at Deecolonize Academy, the poor and indigenous people-led liberation school on the sacred land we houseless poverty skolaz call Homefulness. The metallic crunching fills the air; the screeching sound of metal destroying metal pierces the skin harder than the whipping ocean breeze. Homes, belongings, memoirs, cr...

Stealing our last acre and one remaining mule: Black, Brown and no... Stealing our last acre and one remaining mule: Black, Brown and no income San Francisco residents resist Housing Authority’s displacement, demolition and privatization of public housing April 29, 2021 On Tuesday, April 20, POOR Magazine held a “Stealing Our Last Acre and One Remaining Mule” speak out on City Hall steps, launching a tenants union to organize people in public housing – from folks in Fillmor...

Beautiful to broken elevator to bedbugs: My 17 years at Acton Courtyard Apartment Complex April 25, 2021 Leroy F. Moore Jr., pictured here with POOR Magazine’s Tiny Gray-Garcia, has lived in the Acton Courtyard Apartments in Berkeley for 17 years, experiencing the same difficulties disabled people report facing due to neglect of subsidized housing all over the country, from broken elevators to bedbugs. – Photo: San Francisco State University by Leroy F. Moore Jr. It was 2004-05 when I saw A...