Affordable Housing
Report: Oakland Can House 2,000 Homeless People in 6 Months “If Political Will Exists”
Real number of homeless in Oakland is over 9,000 A number of Oakland groups released a “Community-Based…
No on AA: Congress of Neighborhoods, East Bay Times Oppose Schaaf’s Education Initiative
“It’s not clear where the money is going, for there is no plan,” says the newspaper By…
Attacks on Desley Brooks Are “Shameful and Dishonest,” Say Community Leaders
Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Racial profiling, Responsive Government, Sanctuary City, voting rights…
UN Report Says Oakland Guilty of “Cruel and Inhumane Treatment” of Homeless
Posted in Affordable Housing, Community, Environment, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Libby Schaaf The United Nations Special Rapporteur to the Right to Adequate Housing, Lelani Farha, released…
Mayor Schaaf’s Proposals for Building Affordable Housing on Public Land Challenged
“The mayor and the people who work for her have been trying to kill the public land…
Moratorium on Sale of Public Land Dies in Council Committee
By Ken Epstein A proposed moratorium that would block the sale of public land until the City…
Council Delays Decision on Selling Public Land to Build Charter School
The Oakland school board asked the City Council not to sell the property to the charter school…
Councilmember McElhaney’s Proposal Would Help “Cash-Strapped” Landlords Evict Tenants
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business, Economic Development, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures Proposal offers a city-subsidized “incentive” for small landlords to displace tenants, says housing rights…
Open Letter: Support the Right of African Americans to Work on City-funded Construction Projects
Posted in Affordable Housing, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Homelessness, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs To Council Members, Mayor, City Staff, and Members of the…
Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan Endorses Cat Brooks
By Ken Epstein City Councilmember-at-Large Rebecca Kaplan, one of Oakland’s most popular progressive political leaders, ended months…