By Sarah Carpenter If you live in the Bay, you’ve heard the term “housing crisis.” And there is no doubt that we are in one. But what I’m finding out is that we are actually living in two...

By Sarah Carpenter If you live in the Bay, you’ve heard the term “housing crisis.” And there is no doubt that we are in one. But what I’m finding out is that we are actually living in two...

Reading the Laney Tower for the first time has given me an appreciation which I had not expected to find. I would like to thank the Tower for its approach to the issue of homelessness. I’ve spent...

Editor — I read “A new home in writing” (Tower/April 7) not quite knowing what to expect. For various reasons, writing is an interesting subject to me, so I began reading. The title is a bit...

For the last fifty years Americans with severe mental illness have lacked appropriate care. Many are homeless and live on the streets. Still more have been trapped in the prison system, often for decades. But...

Memories of teenage homelessness shape adulthood for creative writer In the summer of 1994, Kit Berry, then 6 years old, learned to ride a bike in Ohama, Nebraska. There I was, fifteen and suddenly...

The Homelessness issue: Part 2 Homeless students struggle, succeed When Laney College student Darrell Brown got divorced in 2000, he found himself homeless. Brown was working three jobs: full-time...

Homelessness is not a faceless collective, distinct from the rest of society. Yet our collective consciousness usually leaves the disenfranchised out in the cold, both literally and metaphorically....

Editor — During my reading of the Tower, I found it really good with several great stories. While there were several great stories, nothing caught my attention too much. But my sentiments toward...