On April 7, a massive fleet of California Highway Patrol cars, Fresno Police Department cars, public works vehicles, trash trucks, skip loaders and other heavy equipment arrived in the early morning [...] Continue Reading
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Local Housing Market on Fire
If you’ve been on the hunt for a house recently, you know about this. It’s a hunt. And it’s troubling. But, you’re not alone. For several reasons, the real estate housing market in the United [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor
Stop Discrimination of the Homeless This letter concerns the flagrant discrimination against our long-suffering homeless individuals and leaders’ refusal to provide nice studio [or] one-bedroom [...] Continue Reading
Why I Risked Getting Arrested Today
The City of Fresno passed an ordinance to stop witnesses from observing the demolition of homeless encampments. The ordinance that threatens to arrest witnesses went into effect on April 1, 2022 [...] Continue Reading
The Struggle for Human Dignity in Fresno
Lewis Brown was living in a homeless encampment near Highway 180 and West Avenue when he was brutalized by several members of the Fresno Police Department. In a lawsuit filed on Brown’s behalf, [...] Continue Reading
Refusing to Remain Invisible
A historic lawsuit, led by longtime homeless advocate Dez Martinez, founder of We Are Not Invisible, has been filed against the City of Fresno. Because of Martinez’s efforts, unhoused residents of the [...] Continue Reading
When Tragedy Knocks at Your Door
Lewis Brown, a 62-year-old homeless man, was assaulted by Fresno Police Department officers at a homeless encampment in West Fresno in February 2020. He has now filed a class-action lawsuit against [...] Continue Reading
Police Brutality Will Be Put on Trial in Fresno
Fresno police officers brutalized Lewis Brown while he was living in a homeless encampment near Highway 180 and West Avenue. After being released by the hospital, he was charged with a variety of [...] Continue Reading
Money for Lawsuits, No Money for Warming Centers and No Empathy
As the City of Fresno continues to break up homeless encampments, refuses to keep warming centers open and fails to provide basic sanitation, the mayor, the City Council and the city attorney are [...] Continue Reading
Remembering the Homeless on St. Patrick’s Day
Since the ’80s, a homelessness crisis has beset our country—your advice is? Yes, the limerick’s a mistake; human lives are at stake and need hearts and minds for what the price [...] Continue Reading
City and County Have Millions Yet Only Kick People When They’re Down
On Jan. 12, it was a truly dystopian scene at H and San Benito streets in downtown Fresno. Police car lights in the dense fog, the jaws of large heavy equipment scooping up property and debris in the [...] Continue Reading
Solutions for Homelessness Cannot Keep Up
Downtown Fresno holds some of the city’s fastest-growing homeless encampments. Tents, personal belongings and homeless individuals fill the streets. Since 2020, the pandemic has put Americans in [...] Continue Reading