On Tuesday Dec. 4, workers for Security Contract Services installed a fence surrounding a community of unhoused residents who live in tents at Mosswood Park in...
Mayor Libby Schaaf’s administration has plans on paper to help the homeless get off the streets. But in reality, the administration’s approach has been and remains...
Community members and the Oakland City Council came together this week to look at the successes and failures of ongoing local attempts to grapple with the...
Before a new rent control law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in October goes into effect in January, some landlords around the state are trying to get...
Hundreds of East Bay residents gathered at Mosswood Park in Oakland around noon on Sat., Nov. 23, 2019, to participate in The March for Housing Now,...
In the wake of a Nov. 5 City Council meeting during which the City of Oakland denied the East 12th Street Coalition’s (E12SC) appeal to stop...
On Nov. 5 and 6, the City of Oakland began a clearance operation of a homeless encampment on a privately owned tract of land west of...
The Associated Real Property Brokers the local chapter of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers (NAREB), the country’s oldest, minority real estate trade association is...
Unhoused residents living on a field, just west of Wood Street between 24th and 26th Streets in West Oakland, are anxious as the City of Oakland...
While establishing a fire lane and cleaning a portion of a Home Depot parking lot where around 50 unhoused residents live, on Oct. 22 and 23...
The Oakland Post connected with displaced, unhoused residents in the wake of city- sanctioned closures of homeless encampments and found many have moved into less stable...
Many Oakland residents who live in vehicles wonder where they can feel safe as city run and sponsored safe parking sites have been inaccessible to them....
Gov. Gavin Newsom kicked off a statewide tour on October 8 at the West Oakland Senior Center to sign a series of bills that build on...
“We built these ships, we dredged these canals in a San Francisco they never knew existed,” said African-American actor Jimmy Fails in the trailer of the...
Presidential candidate Julian Castro visited Oakland on Wednesday Sept. 25. Hosted by Councilman Noel Gallo, Castro was provided a tour of the Fruitvale district where he...
Oakland’s Department of Public Works (DPW) and Police Department followed Mayor Libby Schaaf’s city administration’s orders on Tuesday to evict about two dozen homeless residents who...
The East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EB PREC) is working to keep Black, indigenous, people of color and allied communities in the East Bay by...
Rebecca Kaplan, president of the Oakland City Council, has called for hearing on impact fees to address the “emergency need to create housing at all income...
On Sept 11, the Oakland Public Works Department plans to destroy about 20 small homes that residents who can’t afford sanctioned housing have built and currently...
Oakland’s population of unhoused residents may be much higher than the July Point- In-Time census that showed a 47% increase over the last count in 2017....
A self-described performance artist, Mavin Carter- Griffin said she can perform art anywhere. Her “curb urban loft” at the Woodside homeless encampment in West Oakland is...
Six affordable housing developers have been awarded a total of $30 million to build 413 housing units in Oakland, which will include 168 units of “permanent...
Oakland’s Department of Public Works (ODPW) and Oakland’s Police Department (OPD) and Auto Plus Towing evicted at least 20 adults and five children who were living...
When Will More Than $2.7 Billion the State Has Invested in Fighting Homelessness and Building Affordable Housing Reach the People Who Need it? When Coleen Sykes Ray...
Final Point-in-Time Count report marks progress made since 2017 Final statistics from the Point-in-Time Homelessness Count that took place in January confirm that the Marin County...