Gentrification
Post Salon Backs Call on State Officials to Investigate and Remove FCMAT
By Ken Epstein The Oakland Post Community Assembly, along with parents and teachers in the Oakland Not…
Commentary: Data Points and Dollar Signs: Roots, School Closure, and the New “Demand Rate” Metric
Roots International Academy in East Oaklad By Jane Nylund Ultimately, the growth of charters will be fundamentally…
School Board Votes to Close Kaiser Elementary School
Posted in Education/Schools/Youth, Fiscal Crisis Management & Assistance Team (FCMAT), Gentrification, School closures By Ken Epstein The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)…
Big Win in Sacramento for Anti Rent-Gouging and Eviction Protections
Posted in Affordable Housing, Gentrification, Homelessness, Housing/Foreclosures, Responsive Government Tenant leaders of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) and other organizing…
Parents Push Back Against School District Plan to Close and Merge Schools
Kaiser Elementary School parents meet with school district administrator about school closing, Photo by Ken Epstein. By…
State Supported Housing Development Will Help Some Homeless but Beyond Reach for Many Oaklanders
Permanent Supportive Housing for former homeless people in San Francisco. By Ken EpsteinSix affordable housing developers have been…
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…