Projects to provide 163 units of permanently affordable housing for homeless and those vulnerable to homelessness On Monday, the City of Oakland was awarded $20 million for...
After being denied amenities and suffering from financial loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than 60 tenants who live in Fourth Street East, a luxury...
About 175 tenants gathered on the steps of Alameda County’s Superior Courthouse for a rally called Life Over Rent/Nuestrxs Vidas Si Renta No last Saturday. A...
Moms 4 Housing, a coalition of support groups and about 150 local residents gathered outside the Alameda County administration building in downtown Oakland on Tuesday to...
On Aug. 27-28, The City of Oakland cleared five residents who were living in tents from Manila Avenue near Mosswood Park, but allowed them to move...
The clock was ticking as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers circled up to cut a deal to save the state from the wave of evictions...
On Aug. 21, the City of Oakland posted notices announcing plans to remove some unhoused residents who live just north of Mosswood Park Thursday, Aug. 27....
With a 19-1 vote, the Judicial Council of California voted to end two emergency rules that put temporary halts on evictions and foreclosures. They are scheduled...
In the summer of 2019 Mayor Libby Schaaf announced plans to construct a safe RV parking site for unhoused residents living along Wood Street in West Oakland...
Quicken Loans’ parent company, Rocket Companies, was expected to begin the first day of trading connected to its initial public offering (IPO), The Greenlining Institute said...
On July 28, Gov. Gavin Newsom reappointed Tia Boatman Patterson executive director of the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA), a role she has served in since...
With the federal COVID-19 rent protections provided in the CARES Act about to expire, any plan to assist tenants who have fallen behind on their payments...
Three affordable housing developers were awarded a total of nearly $90 million, from two extremely competitive State of California funding programs, intended to develop green, resilient...
A recent report from the COVID-19 Eviction Defense Project (CEDP), a coalition of economic researchers and legal experts committed to preventing eviction due to COVID-19, predicts...
The city of Oakland evicted a large community of unhoused people from Mosswood Park on Feb. 24 and announced plans to help the evicted residents secure...
Mayor London Breed announced July 2 that the city of San Francisco was awarded over $130 million in state funds for affordable housing, transportation and infrastructure...
On Tuesday, June 16, the Shields Reid Neighborhood Council, Davis Chapel CME Church and Robert Rogers of Supervisor John Gioia’s office invited a homeless “Streets Team”...
The Lonay Tenant Council (LTC) and supporters formed a caravan of over 40 vehicles and several bikes that started in Oakland last Sunday to protest at...
While most of us are sheltering in place, a few bills of significance in California are going through the legislative process. SB 1410 is legislation that...
As a caravan of organizers departed a Dollar Tree parking lot in Oakland with various rent strike signs and flags attached to their vehicles Friday, May 22, a...
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...
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...
Black People are being infected and dying at disproportionate rates from COVID-19. This past Saturday, Community Ready Corps (CRC) and The Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) virtually...
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...