Oakland Police Department (OPD) officers detained and handcuffed two volunteers last Saturday who were maintaining a freshwater supply for a large community of unhoused residents that...
Tenants who rent from Sullivan Management Company (SMC) East Bay, have founded the SMC Tenants Council, unifying to make collective demands including that the company cancel...
On March 26, 2020, Daryle Allums, CEO of Adamika Village a nonprofit known for decreasing gun violence, protecting women from domestic violence and human trafficking went...
Unhoused Oakland residents say that officers from the Oakland Police Department (OPD) have been harassing and arresting them unjustly during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’re essential workers....
Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that California was the first state in the nation to secure Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funding to place...
Oakland’s Moms 4 Housing hosted an international online solidarity event called “Reclaim Homes from the US to the UK” with representatives from the Focus E15 Campaign...
We are in a critical, yet transformative time in human history right now. As a result of COVID-19, the very systems we depend on are being...
Responding to the economic devastation that is hitting working-class communities in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the Oakland City Council has passed what may be...
To help provide emergency relief to the Oakland community, Council President Rebecca Kaplan has called a special City Council meeting Friday, March 27, via Teleconference to...
On March 10, the City of Oakland evicted and confiscated the belongings of approximately two dozen unhoused Black men who had set up tents in Union...
Following the example of the Italian government, California lawmakers are pushing for legislation that would provide rental relief and order a temporary suspension of mortgage payments...
As the City of Oakland continued evicting unhoused people living in the Community of Grace by East Oakland’s Home Depot, two unhoused residents filed a complaint...
After four months of not paying rent in a unified strike, tenants at a Fruitvale district apartment building in Oakland celebrated on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2020,...
If you or somebody you know is interested in real estate development or running shelters for formerly homeless people, now is the time to start paying...
Any day now Anita Miller could become homeless. The 58-year-old single woman, who lives in Long Beach, is just waiting for the county Sheriff to show...
Gov. Gavin Newsom pledged to mobilize the full power of his administration to alleviate the state’s growing homelessness crisis in his annual State of the State...
More than a dozen unhoused Oakland residents and housing justice advocates gathered on the afternoon of Feb. 15 just west of Wood and 24th Streets to...
Inspired by Moms 4 Housing mothers, District 2, Oakland councilmember Nikki Fortunato Bas introduced the Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA) at the City Council’s rules...
The City of Oakland on Wednesday evicted a group of seven unhoused people who lived along Webster Street and in between 5th and 6th streets, then...
A small group of advocates for unhoused residents gathered outside of The Evictors and The Law Offices of Alan J Horwitz on Monday Jan. 27 to...
Homeless moms who were forcibly evicted from a vacant Oakland house where they lived for two months without permission from the home’s corporate owner, announced on...
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) introduced a bill last week that would allow communities of faith to help alleviate the housing crisis. The bill, AB 1851, would...
Oakland residents built homes for unhoused people on a small tract of publicly owned land between 14th and 16th avenues and East 12th street during the...
Moms 4 Housing advocacy group was evicted from a West Oakland home in the early hours of Tuesday Jan. 14 after judgment came in favor of...
The Village, a group that fights for unhoused resident rights, is asking for community support on Jan. 18 and 19, 2020, to help with their event...
