Housing/Gentrification

By: Sistah SaveASoul aka AudreyCandyCorn

I remember being a little girl growing up in Oakland California the home of both of my parents

Beautiful to Broken Elevator to Bedbugs: My 17 Years at Acton Courtyard Apartment Complex

By Queennandi Xsheba PNN KEXU

By Queennandi Xsheba PNN KEXU

Mural created by poor and houseless artists at POOR Magazine which was painted over to make way for flashier, more “impactful” mural done by middle-class trust fund artists in SF

Listen to this PoemCast from a povertyskola by clicking here

By Queennandi Xsheba, PNN KEXU

Avan was a teenager with a kind soul who was alone and houseless. He lived in a tent in San Francisco and struggled greatly trying to navigate the winding road called life.

528 years, 22 years and all of our lives of endless struggle....Poor People built this with a poem- a poem that wound thru shelter beds and tents, poLice sweeps and the lie of rent....