Gentrification

Ken A. Epstein

Gentrification Threatens Oakland Churches and Artists

Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Education/Schools/Youth, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Oakland Job Programs, Racial profiling, Restorative Justice Coalition of faith-based, housing and cultural groups…

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Ken A. Epstein

Community Turns Up the Volume to Defend Residents and Businesses

Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Business, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures Activists demand “Development Without Displacement” after mayor’s staff says there is…

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Ken A. Epstein

End Jim Crow Segregation at Oakland Restaurants, Say Activists

Posted in Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Oakland Job Programs By Ken Epstein and Ashley Chambers Restaurants and hospitality businesses employ nearly…

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Ken A. Epstein

Oakland Anti-Displacement Coalition Says “Speak Out to Stay Put!”

Carroll Fife (top left), a co-founder of the Oakland Alliance, spoke at a workshop on developing an…

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Ken A. Epstein

Oakland Petition: Neighbors Should Not Be Racially Profiling Neighbors

Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling By Ken Epstein Oakland community activist Ann Nomura and her family have begun…

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Ken A. Epstein

Op-ed: City Council Must Take Immediate Steps to Address to Housing Crisis

Representatives must take emergency action to halt displacement of Oakland residents By Margaretta Lin In the tradition…

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Ken A. Epstein

Is Oakland a “Sanctuary City” for Its Sanctuaries?

Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Police-Public Safety, Responsive Government, Uncategorized Gentrifiers cause the city to use police and fines…

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Ken A. Epstein

City of Oakland and Local Businesses Must Hire Oakland Now, Say Community Leaders

Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Labor, LGBT, Oakland Job Programs, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated Speakers at the Post Salon on jobs for Oakland residents were (…

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Ken A. Epstein

Churches Respond to Noise Complaints Filed Against West Oakland Church

Posted in Affordable Housing, Arts and Culture, Community, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Responsive Government Neighborhoods gear up to protest gentrification with a “joyful noise”…

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Ken A. Epstein

Window for City of Oakland to Act on Housing Opportunities for Residents Is Closing Fast

Posted in Affordable Housing, Community, Gentrification, Responsive Government By Margaretta Lin The international peace leader Thich Nhat Hanh teaches us to write…

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