No Place Like Home: Housing Inequity in San Francisco
Trip Bio
This DeCal will explore the history and systematic issues of the unhoused community in the Tenderloin, including the presence of the LGBTQ+ community, and how it is tied to the UC Berkeley community. We strive to humanize the most vulnerable and impacted individuals to the housing crisis in the Bay Area. We will discuss how the housing crisis has been formed by dehumanizating the houseless via media and policies, like the New Deal. How the crisis is reproduced by invisibilizating the houseless through street sweeps and the criminalization of “homelessness.” As the climate and drug crisis develop, those most affected by the housing crisis in the Bay Area and California will be most at risk. Overall collaboratively educating and engaging the UC Berkeley community with the houseless community in California.
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Community Partner
Faithful Fools fosters awareness and analysis of deteriorating social conditions in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District and facilitates individual and collective responses.
Glide is nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives.
Trip Leaders
Mona Gholikhamseh (she/her/hers)
Media Studies
Graduate Year: 2025
Jessica Lin-Tupas (she/her/hers)
Urban Studies
Graduate Year: 2026