A TINY PLOT 

Hosted by Shaina Shealy from Snap Studios at KQED.

It’s barricades vs. bobcats, tents vs. tiny homes and a team of people fighting to stay together. Listen to a radical experiment in freedom that puts an entire city under the microscope.

From KQED’s award-winning Snap Judgment, producer Shaina Shealy follows a group of homeless people in Oakland, CA as they fight for an extraordinary new idea: their own encampment where they can set their own rules. 

Mama D, Papa Eddie, President Matt, and the entire Union Point family invite listeners into their worlds to witness high-stakes decisions, devastating failures and wild successes – all in service of a better way to get people off the streets in Oakland.

It’s a five-chapter series  in an against-all-odds story about scarcity, community, and what it takes to have decision making power over one’s own life while homeless.

Available on any podcast platform. 

The Tiny Plot Crew

Host and Producer: Shaina Shealy 

Featured Story Voices: Mama D, Papa Eddie, President Matt, Tammy, Tim, Rachel, Mustache Mike, and Adam.

Editor: Anna Sussman

Original Music: Renzo Gorrio

Engineer: Pat Mesiti-Miller

Director of Production: Marisa Dodge

Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich

Special Thanks: Nancy Lopez, Jen Chien & Catherine Winter