“People are experts on their own lives.”
Media coverage of homelessness in San Francisco is easy enough to find, but it’s rarer to read it from someone who has been unhoused — unless you’re reading TJ Johnston, that is.
Johnston has interviewed policymakers and the people affected. Although he wouldn’t claim the title himself, Johnston emerged as an expert on homelessness writing for the Bay Area’s only street newspaper. Street Spirit, his paper’s East Bay sister publication, shut down earlier this year. What is your perspective on how journalists are covering homelessness today? I’ve seen gradual improvement of coverage over the years.
Take the sweep situation — you hear stories about city workers taking away belongings of people who are living on the streets and throwing it away in the trash. Or telling them, “You can’t stay here, you have to move along somewhere else.”’ That’s a human rights issue. Also, homelessness is that sort of meeting point for all the other forms of oppression. Whether that’s racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia ... all the isms and phobias that you can think of.
Then the dot-com boom happened, as well as the dot-com bust. Surviving in that type of environment has been growing more and more difficult for poor people, people of more modest means.
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