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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 the city has temporarily assig
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.