Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Rick Fisher loves his three dogs. Even when he was struggling to keep a roof over his head, the dogs were always on his mind. “Deuce and Saucy are like husband and wife,” he said, on a recent afternoon. Fisher, 55, has had the two pit bulls for […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article A year ago, Ariel Juarez was alone on Christmas Day at a San Jose homeless shelter and, in his words, “curled up on my bedroll, waiting for time to pass by.” Juarez’s son, Orion, then 5 years old, was spending the holidays with his mother. Juarez was mourning […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Joshua Perez had fallen off a ladder before, because falling off ladders happens when you’re a building contractor. He had fallen off tall ladders and he had fallen off very tall ladders, all while he was on the job. Those were times when he was covered by insurance. […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Wildfires were still raging across Sonoma County the morning Barbara Toschi decided to go to work anyway. Less than 48 hours before, her Alexander Valley ranch had been in the crosshairs of the Tubbs and Pocket fires. She and her husband had packed up their cars and prepared […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Ronald Calbert’s small home in West Oakland is filled with toy cars, tiny helicopters, colorful balls and various scooters. His walls are papered with a child’s hand-drawn pictures of rainbows, wobbly printed notes of greeting and Raiders stickers. This is not the home of a man who has given up […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Eula Sims keeps her home neat. She has her Bibles, which she reads often. She pins a few unframed photographs of her children on the wall next to her daybed. She keeps a dish out with peppermint candy in it. And she makes room for a pink stuffed […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Not many people can point to the exact cause of suddenly becoming homeless, much less put a number to it. For Tri-Nu Little, the number was 31. That’s the number of days it took her rent to increase by $650, a more than 60 percent jump in monthly […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article When Melody Nichols was stuck at home recovering from sudden appendicitis surgery, she kept trying to return to work so she could pay her bills. But her body, riddled with pain, held her back. “It was like God said, ‘Sit there, and let me do my work,’” Nichols […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Back before ride-hailing apps became all the rage, San Francisco cabdrivers could make a decent living, especially if they owned one of the 2,000 city-issued medallions. The medallion allowed drivers to own their own cabs, which would mean higher incomes. A medallion was hard to get, so they […]
Explore OurStories of Hope Share this Article Once there were tubs full of Legos to play with. Bikes to pedal under the tall pine trees. Comfy beds to sleep in, and nothing but pretty forest for a front yard, every so often visited by gobbling wild turkeys. But that was then, before the Tubbs Fire […]
