Adrian Covert

1 week ago | capitolweekly.net | Rich Ehisen |Adrian Covert |Steve Adami

Opinion Image by Albina Gavrilovic by ADRIAN COVERT and STEVE ADAMI posted 05.01.2025 OPINION – Over the past decade California’s homeless residents have endured a catastrophic addiction epidemic that has claimed thousands of lives and spread despair in communities across the state. Compassion requires a new course.

Jun 22, 2024 | pressdemocrat.com | Adrian Covert

Cities across America are successfully revitalizing once-neglected downtowns by transforming dull public spaces for cars into exciting spaces for pedestrians to shop, dine and mingle. Which is why plans to gut one of Santa Rosa’s few, and most iconic, pedestrian gathering spaces to create a driveway and parking lot for a chain restaurant is so disappointing.

Apr 17, 2024 | sandiegouniontribune.com | Adrian Covert |Elizabeth Funk

Covert is senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council and lives in Santa Rosa. Funk is CEO and founder of DignityMoves, a San Francisco-based nonprofit working to end unsheltered homelessness. She lives in San Francisco. California has for years systematically neglected to build adequate shelter options for its homeless residents.