Homeless Triangle Part Two: Home erosion

You can read Part I of this series about homelessness and our prison system here.

Get on the bus

Each year, for 130,000 Californians, the prison door is unlocked one day and the question now becomes – where do you go? And how do you get there? Do you get any money? If so, how […]

Homeless Triangle Part One

If you work as a doctor in a clinic for the homeless, you see all kinds of simmering panic. There’s the God, someone’s got to help me panic of the person who lost their house to foreclosure. There’s the fatalistic panic of a street person with a hard, bone-rattling cough who senses, deep inside, that […]

Science you want to know: Epigenetic research actually explains what makes us human

So much of science promises a lot…and then never delivers. It’s enough to make you sigh and roll your eyes every time you see a screaming headline about a new type of research. That’s why so many of us don’t really want to dig in and try to understand some of the newer developments in […]

Ed, Christine, Ralph, and Alma are home and healing: 9 approaches to homelessness that work and why

This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […]

Mary, Melodie and the Mission district: women brutalized on our sidewalks

This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […]

Steve, Tori and the Western Addition: raising children without a stable bed

This is one in a series of articles, running between Thanksgiving and January, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying and homelessness, and Be […]