Housing/Foreclosures
Business Center in West Oakland Will Give Opportunities for Formerly Incarcerated
By Ashley Chambers A vacant lot left blighted for over three decades on 7th and Campbell streets in…
UN Officials “Shocked” by Detroit’s Continuing Water Shut-offs
Posted in Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Health, Housing/Foreclosures, Politics, Responsive Government By Post Staff and news reports Two United Nations rapporteurs who visited Detroit, Michigan…
Mayoral Candidates Consider Plan to Activate Community Involvement
By Post Staff Several of Oakland’s mayoral candidates have expressed interest in creating communitywide action task forces…
Will Proposed Coliseum City Benefit or Displace East Oakland Residents?
Posted in Arts and Culture, Business, Coliseum City, Community, Economic Development, Environment, Gentrification, Health, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Responsive Government, Transportation By Ken Epstein City officials seem to be moving…
Oakland Seeks Answers as Residents Continue to Be Displaced and Dispossesed
Photo courtesy of Oakland North. By Ken Epstein With all the talk of economic and housing market…
Council Approves West Oakland Development Plan
By Ken A. Epstein The West Oakland Specific Plan, designed to guide and encourage residential, commercial and…
17-Story Condo Tower at Jack London Square Entrance?
By Ken A. Epstein The City Council’s Community and Economic Development committee is rushing to send a…
West Oakland Development Plan Goes to Council
By Ken Epstein The West Oakland Specific Plan, a federally funded effort to develop guidelines for the…
School District Wants to Sell School Property to Build Apartments
Posted in Community, Education/Schools/Youth, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures “We are not surplus,” said teachers and communit members who went to the Oakland school district’s…
City to Rezone School Headquarters Property for Residential Housing
By Ken Epstein and Ashley Chambers Plans are moving forward to lease or sell the Oakland Unified…