EDC Community Event: A Conversation with Kevin Fagan

EDC Community Event: A Conversation with Kevin Fagan

The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) is pleased to host Kevin Fagan as part of our EDC Community Event Series.

Date and Time: Friday, August 1st from 5:30pm to 7pm

Type of ticket: free

Location: Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC), 976 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) is pleased to host Kevin Fagan as part of our EDC Community Event Series. Kevin Fagan is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Lost and the Found.

EDC fights to uphold housing as a basic human right, helping people stay in their homes and protecting San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations from eviction and homelessness. We are excited to offer this conversation with Kevin, whose work and perspectives on these issues are sure to lead to a thought-provoking evening.

Light refreshments, including wine and finger foods, will be served. Donations will be welcome, but optional, at the event itself.

The Lost and the Found

In the tradition of Stephanie Land and Matthew Desmond, a powerful and deeply reported narrative of homelessness, despair, and hope. Kevin Fagan’s The Lost and the Found, set in San Francisco—one of the wealthiest cities in America—takes an empathic, character-driven approach to exploring the human side of what’s behind the homelessness epidemic. An award-winning journalist and Pulitzer Prize nominee who has covered homelessness for decades and spent extensive time on the streets for his reporting, Fagan experienced it himself as a young man and brings a deep understanding to the crisis. He introduces us to Rita and Tyson, telling the deeply moving story of two unhoused people rescued by their families with the help of Fagan’s reporting, and their struggle to pull themselves out of homelessness and addiction, ending with both enormous tragedy and triumph. But The Lost and the Found is not just a story of individuals experiencing homelessness, it is also a compelling look at the link between homelessness and addiction, and an incisive commentary on housing and equality. Fagan shines a sharp light on this national calamity, and in sharing Rita and Tyson’s stories, The Lost and the Found has the potential to change the way we see and help the homeless.

Kevin Fagan is a longtime, award-winning reporter, having spent over three decades at the San Francisco Chronicle. He won the Bill Workman Award from the San Francisco Press Club, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice in Journalism, and the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. He has also been nominated several times for the Pulitzer Prize. During his career, he has covered homelessness, the 9/11 terror attacks, serial killers, California’s wildfires, and much more. Follow him on X @KevinChron.

The Eviction Defense Collaborative (EDC) believes that housing is a basic human right. EDC fights to uphold this right, helping people stay in their homes and protecting San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations from eviction and homelessness. We work to reach housing solutions through an integrated, collaborative approach that brings together free legal representation, rental assistance, and support for residents of homeless shelters. EDC provides support services that address root causes of homelessness and advocates for changes to address the unfairness and inequity in housing. EDC is a lifeline for people faced with losing their homes. We are here to help.