Gentrification
Community Voices Fill City Hall, Luxury Apartment Building Blocked
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor Guillen’s proposal collapses as Brooks, Kalb and Gallo refuse to support it By Ken Epstein…
Land for Luxury Apartment Tower Goes to City Council for Final Vote
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs Vote scheduled for Tuesday, June 2 By Ken Epstein The Oakland City Council…
Barbara Parker Cites Confidentiality, Refuses Comment on Sale of Property for Luxury Apartment Tower
Posted in Economic Development, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Politics, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein A local community group has not yet received a reply from…
Vote on Luxury Apartment Tower Postponed, As Councilmembers Seek Improved Community Benefits
By Ken Epstein A number of Oakland residents have been waiting to see what the City Council…
Evictions Fuel Bay Area Housing Crisis
Posted in Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures By Nikolas Zelinski San Francisco’s eviction rate has increased by over 54 percent in the past…
Protesters Shut Down Council Meeting , Demand Affordable Housing Not Luxury Apartments
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Gentrification, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Responsive Government By Ken Epstein Oakland City Council chambers became ground zero for…
New West Oakland Skate Park Runs into Bumpy Ground
Posted in Arts and Culture, Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification By Tasion Kwamilele A conflict over a skate park in West Oakland has become…
Coalition Wants Coliseum City to Produce Jobs and Housing for Residents
Posted in Coliseum City, Economic Development, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs By Ashley Chambers In the wake of the City Council decision to…
Councilmembers Back $3,000 a Month Apartment Tower Project, Opposed by Eastlake Neighbors
Rendering of Lake Merritt Boulevard Apartments, courtesy of UrbanCore. By Ken Epstein The City Council’s Community and…
Commentary: Oakland Needs a Department to Address Institutionalized Injustice
Posted in Commentary, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Ferguson/Black Lives Matter, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Police-Public Safety, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government By Kitty Kelly Epstein Two-thirds of the people…