Affordable Housing
Open Letter: Community Leaders Call on Mayor, Council to Improve Services for Unsheltered Residents
Posted in Affordable Housing, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Libby Schaaf, Politics, Responsive Government The following is an open letter to Mayor Libby Schaaf, City Council Members,…
Commentary: State Legislators Join Landlords to Defeat Bonta’s Protections Against “No-Cause” Evictions
Posted in Affordable Housing, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures On Thursday, May 31, a proposal to enact statewide eviction protections by Assemblymember Bob…
Moratorium on Public Land Sales Goes to CED Committee
By Post staff The City Council’s Community and Economic Development (CED) Committee will hear a community-initiated proposal…
Councilmembers, Community Groups Push Mayor for Funding for Homeless, Job Training and Trash Cleanup
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Rebecca Kaplan Members of East Oakland…
Open Letter: Councilmember Kaplan Challenges Sale of Public Land for Charter School
Mayor and City Administrator Don’t Want a Public Lands Policy, Says Kaplan By Rebecca Kaplan The Community…
“It Makes No Sense to Sell Public Land,” Say Local Residents
Posted in Affordable Housing, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Post Salon Attending this week’s Rules and Legislation Committee to support a moratorium on the…
Opinion: Rebecca Kaplan Should Run for Mayor of Oakland
Posted in Affordable Housing, Elections & Voting Rights, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Rebecca Kaplan By Sandré R. Swanson I was born in…
Post Salon Calls for Moratorium on Sale of Public Land as Market Rate Building Boom Sweeps City
Posted in Affordable Housing, Community, Equal Rights/Equity, Post Salon, Responsive Government Mayor and City Administration push property sales without transparency or community involvement….
Opinion: Re-elect Desley Brooks to City Council
Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Community, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Equal Rights/Equity, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government By Dan Siegel, Oakland…
Councilmembers Delay Vote on Proposal for Construction Job Opportunities for Oaklanders
Pre-apprenticeship building trades trainees from the Cypress Mandela Training Center, which was founded by the Oakland Private…