Economic Development
Community Rallies to Stop State Bill That Would Require School Closures
By Ken Epstein Local residents are scrambling to oppose a state bill that they recently found out…
Community and Developers Ask: Why Is There so Little Money in the City’s Affordable Housing Fund?
Affordable housing protest at Oakland City Hall By Ken Epstein Where have the city’s funds for affordable…
Black Workers Call for City Council Summit on Discrimination in Hiring on City Projects
Posted in Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor By Ken Epstein African American contractors and construction workers are opposing a proposal that…
Opinion: City’s Kaiser Center 99-Year Lease Proposal “Lacks in Benefits to Marginalized Communities”
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, History and remembering, Libby Schaaf By Ayodele Nzinga, MFA, Ph.D. In 2014, the City of Oakland issued an…
$44.4 More Million for Homeless
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Homelessness, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice, Sanctuary City, Transportation Affordable housing, parks, illegal…
Backers of “Public Land for Public Good” Challenge City’s Commitment to Market-rate Housing
Supporters of utilizing all public land for community benefit, especially for affordable housing, speak Tuesday at the…
Council Adopts Kaplan’s $3.2 Billion Budget
Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Gentrification, Health, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice Bas…
Opinion: We Need to Stand for Leonard Powell
Posted in Berkeley, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Probate court reform, Responsive Government Court Hearing Jan. 29 for Veteran Fighting to Keep City from…
New Year, New Leadership, New Oakland?
Rebecca Kaplan unanimously elected City Council President By Ken Epstein Oakland honored its newly elected city leaders…
Oakland Pays Tribute to Outgoing Councilmember Desley Brooks
Posted in Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated “Desley was the lightning rod who took all the bad energy…