Category: Homeless

Home Is a Hotel: Life on the Margins in San Francisco’s Housing Crisis

March 7, 2024

HOME IS A HOTEL – A composite portrait of life on the margins in the most expensive city in the country (San Francisco). Screening at Grace CathedralSunday, March 10, at 1:30 PM(Please go to Grace Cathedral’s website to register) *Following the screening, Martha Ryan, Founder, Shellena Eskridge, Homeless Prenatal Program executive director, Jacquelynn Evans, HPP … More Home Is a Hotel: Life on the Margins in San Francisco’s Housing Crisis

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“The Way Home,” a Documentary Series on Homelessness to Begin this Friday on ITunes, Amazon, and Google Play.

December 3, 2020

I don’t know you, but every time I see someone sleeping on the street I feel bad and I wish I could do something big about it. I do what I can at the moment and I try to not judge because I am sure I’d have to be in their shoes to understand. It … More “The Way Home,” a Documentary Series on Homelessness to Begin this Friday on ITunes, Amazon, and Google Play.

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This is What Mexicans Are Doing to Help People During Winter.

December 7, 2016

  Are you cold? Take one. Want to help? Put one. (Community) – It is simple; yet, effective. Sharing a coat or two with people who during Winter might be out in the streets feeling the harsh cold. Mexicans are doing just that by bringing coats they don’t use and hanging them on a designated … More This is What Mexicans Are Doing to Help People During Winter.

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Photos for justice: On the Streets; under the Trees.

May 20, 2016

What is it like to not having a place to live, and the struggle for dignity? Award winning photojournalist David Bacon tells the story as it is: Homelessness in urban and rural California. You are invited to this important exhibit at the Asian Resource Gallery, 317 Ninth St at Harrison, Oakland, California, May to June, … More Photos for justice: On the Streets; under the Trees.

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Harsh Realities.

January 4, 2016

By Lupita Peimbert. @Lupitanews. On a Bart train this morning, going from San Francisco to Oakland, and full with young people going downtown, we all had this unexpected experience. The passengers had to share the air and the space inside that particular car, with two men smelling badly, as in urinated pants and dirty clothes; … More Harsh Realities.

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Just Another So-Called Homeless on Market Street

August 27, 2015

At first sight, 33 year-old Nicholas Mittel was just another guy down on Market Street. He was not asking for money, though, although he looked like someone who probably did not have a home. Another so-called homeless man in San Francisco. He was busy working on a flower. A rose-like flower made of flax grass, … More Just Another So-Called Homeless on Market Street

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At the Metro Station

January 8, 2013

Photos and text by Lupita Peimbert It was a cold night, early January in Paris, France. As usual, Metro Chátelet was full of people coming and going. As usual, in the underground alleys that take you to the platforms for boarding the trains, a group of musicians delighted the audience with classical music. The violin, … More At the Metro Station

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