In a city that knows homelessness all too well, 42-year-old Amanda Jenkins is an authority on the subject.
May 7, 2023 at 6:05 a.m.
He answers. She jots. Well-versed with the uncertainty of life on the streets, Jenkins is a volunteer leader for the nonprofit Faith in Action East Bay and was collecting responses from current or formerly unhoused individuals ahead of an April meeting with California legislators about housing rights.
With temporary city and county support, Jenkins lives in an apartment now, a two-bedroom central Richmond place she shares with her 15-year-old son Clyde and dogs, Bobo and Legacy. It is the first time she has lived indoors, with a private bathroom and kitchen, since 2016. “Being in that tent showed me I could do anything in the world,” she says. “I could move the whole thing in 20 minutes!” She chuckles, and then goes quiet.
In 2020, spurred by repeated requests from the police to move her home and motivated by BoomBoom’s words, Jenkins moved to an encampment located at the tail-end of North Castro Street known as Camperland. But multiple incidents of arson, issues of safety and blight and a return to post-COVID normalcy put the Rydin Road and Castro Street encampments on the Richmond City Council’s radar.
The apartment is warm and cozy and filled with mismatched pieces of furniture Jenkins says she found on the streets: a light gray recliner, two black high chairs, a long white sofa. Thanks to Bobo and Legacy, they’re all covered in dog hair.
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