Sidewalk Stories ‘Sidewalk Stories’ is a collaboration between Crosscurrents and the East Bay’s Street Spirit newspaper. In the series, unhoused people talk about how they’ve built a life outside.

Alastair Boone

This story aired in the December 1, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents.

As Bay Area Cities crack down on homelessness, they are increasingly targeting people living in vehicles. San Francisco just passed a policy that makes it illegal for large vehicles to park in the same place for more than two hours. And tomorrow, the Oakland City Council will discuss a new policy that would write people living in vehicles out of the city’s definition of “encampment” altogether, even though vehicle dwellers make up more than half the city’s homeless population.

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