By Mike Rhodes Did the City of Fresno really use federal money intended to help the poor and bulldoze homeless shelters with it? Why was it necessary for a federal judge to order the city to stop [...] Continue Reading
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Fresno Homeless Advocates See the Bigger Picture
By Paul Thomas Jackson (Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article.) Those readers who celebrate Jesus’s birthday usually do so [...] Continue Reading
A Legal Camp for the Formerly Homeless in Eugene, Ore. Could This Be a Model for Cities Like Fresno?
By Ron Martin Opportunity Village Eugene (OVE) in Oregon is nestled among lumberyards and warehouses at 111 Garfield Street. It houses about 30 formerly homeless men and women in small, tall [...] Continue Reading
Wings Fresno Has a Fantastic Year in 2015!
By Bev Fitzpatrick Can you imagine not having a roof over your head, or a bed to sleep on, a shower or a way to cook a hot meal? For many homeless individuals these things don’t exist. However, Wings [...] Continue Reading
Poverty in Fresno and How the Mayor Is Missing the Point
By Eduardo Stanley Editor’s note: The sources for the information included herein are available in the online version of this article. On Oct. 13, Zocalo Public Square presented a panel discussion [...] Continue Reading
Perspectives on the Criminalization of Homelessness in Fresno
By Jonathan Luevanos On the other side of the railroad tracks, west of downtown Fresno, there is an area that is socially and culturally independent of all of the other communities in Fresno, [...] Continue Reading
Punishing Fresno’s Most Vulnerable
By Mike Rhodes Two days after the final assault on homeless encampments by the City of Fresno and Caltrans, Rose and her daughter were trying to find someplace where they could sleep. When I found [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
A Progressive Analysis of the Local Budget Right-wing forces in city and county government are attempting to balance the budget on the backs of poor and working people. They want to do this by [...] Continue Reading
Homeless Evicted With No Place To Go
By Serena Cervantes James Walsh (not his real name), a 38-year-old parolee with gray peppered black hair and a calm demeanor, smokes a “roly” cigarette outside the window of his second-story [...] Continue Reading
Festive Celebration at Roeding Park
On June 11, the Statewide Homeless Memorial Event at Roeding Park had a new twist this year, with some good improvements and some lessons learned, but all in all a good event. It was a festive [...] Continue Reading
Progressive News Briefs
Education Without Borders A march and rally was held in downtown Fresno last month to draw attention to the Fresno Unified School District’s high dropout rate, support ethnic studies programs and [...] Continue Reading
Crossroads with Carla
Life is a journey that has the power to take us places we may never expect to end up. Many people may take a look at homelessness and conclude it to be one of life’s issues that they will never have [...] Continue Reading