This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, Hidden in plain sight: dying [...]

1. Mary, Melodie and the Mission district: women brutalized on our sidewalks
2. Do YOU Live In A Food Desert?
3. Junk Food Can Make Men Less Fertile

This is one in a series of articles, running the 5 weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, and Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?, and Hidden in plain [...]

1. Corey Haim, prescription drug abuse and you
2. Dying Of Hunger In America: News From The Fourth World
3. Hidden in Plain Sight: Dying and Homelessness

Both gratitude and altruism are good for your health and there’s nothing like giving a gift to a homeless person to help you experience both. Her are some easy, practical, cheap ways to be selfish and give a gift to a homless person.

This time of year, no matter what your worldview, religion or culture, [...]

1. 5 Reasons To Give A Gift To A Homeless Person
2. 2009 Homeless Gift Guide
3. Doc Gurley Second Annual Homeless Gift Guide

This is one in a series of articles examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, Gunpowder on the streets, and Will losing your home kill you?

In every training program, nationwide, they are the cases you don’t easily forget, the [...]

1. Are Prison Release Practices Creating Homelessness?
2. Ed, Christine, Ralph, and Alma are home and healing: 9 approaches to homelessness that work and why
3. Dying Of Hunger In America: News From The Fourth World

This is one in a series of articles examining the relationship between housing loss and death in San Francisco. Check out the previous articles in the series, Looking for death, and Gunpowder on the streets.

Meet Mike*

If you work in a homeless clinic, every so often you’re going to see a Mike. He’s easy [...]

1. Saving Your Health When You’re Losing Your Home
2. Homeless Triangle Part Two: Home erosion
3. Ed, Christine, Ralph, and Alma are home and healing: 9 approaches to homelessness that work and why

I went to needle exchange to hang out. You may be asking yourself what a soccer mom from the burbs is doing perched on a folding chair in the parking garage of 101 Grove on a dark November night, surrounded by syringes. I was there as a guest observer because I’m working on a series [...]

1. PTSD and the Homeless: Shell-Shocked on Your Streets
2. Hope and Death
3. Daylight Death…

[Also published on Doc Gurley's blog on SF Gate's City Brights and Chronicle Health Section]

This time of year, no matter what your worldview, religion or culture, it’s hard, as you hurry past the homeless huddled on the street, to not feel like Scrooge. Whether you’re taking your family to the Nutcracker, or pounding [...]

1. Doc Gurley Second Annual Homeless Gift Guide
2. Homeless Gift Guide Video!
3. BFM Gift Guide! The Perfect Bridal Present…

Here’s a new twist on just how far we as a society go to wring the very last penny out of some of our most destitute:

CNN covered the issue of New York”s decision to charge rent to the homeless staying in shelters – but only if they’re working. It’s a perfect storm of bur-idiocy [...]

1. Homeless Triangle Part Three: How many Bay Area parolees are homeless?
2. 5 Reasons To Give A Gift To A Homeless Person
3. 2009 Homeless Gift Guide

Check out the Doc Gurley article at SFGate – the online version of the San Francisco Chronicle – where she discusses the amazing Mother Wright. Mary Ann Wright was a woman who was “right” is so many ways – a true everyday hero of our times. In the article, you’ll find not only a celebration [...]

One of the hardest things about being homeless (and trying to work your way out of homelessness) is that you struggle with things

that many of us take for granted every day – like a safe, reliable way to get your mail. Not many homeless people can pay for P.O. [...]

1. Lock ‘Em Up! News From The Fourth World
2. Dying Of Hunger In America: News From The Fourth World
3. America–Most Expensive Pee In the World