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.

Episode 1 drops August 21, 2025 on Podcast and Radio

 Listen now to the trailer of A Tiny Plot.  

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

Director of Production: Marisa Dodge

Executive Producers: Glynn Washington and Mark Ristich

Special Thanks: Nancy Lopez, Jen Chien & Catherine Winter