Brian Howey, a freelance reporter based in Oakland, reported on the numbers for the Public Press and explains what they do and don’t show about homelessness. Yesica Prado, a multimedia journalist and a Catchlight fellow for the San Francisco Public Press, is producing photo essays for the Public Press that will document the experiences of vehicle dwellers in San Francisco and Berkeley, and shares how city policies affect those who shelter in their cars or RVs.
“I’m not sure that counting tents or vehicles does much more than tell us where people are congregating.” — Brian Howey
“There’s a lot of vehicle dwellers that got towed and then ended up in tents. Some of them were actually my neighbors, and I saw them living in their vehicles and then I saw their life deteriorate when they lost that vehicle.” — Yesica Prado
A segment from our radio show, “Civic.” Listen daily at 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. on 102.5 FM in San Francisco.