Housing/Foreclosures

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Councilmembers, Community Groups Push Mayor for Funding for Homeless, Job Training and Trash Cleanup

Posted in Affordable Housing, Business, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Environment, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Illegal dumping, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Oakland Talks Trash, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Rebecca Kaplan Members of East Oakland…

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Mayoral Candidate Cat Brooks Pledges to “Turn the Tables” on Business as Usual in Oakland

Posted in Economic Development, Elections & Voting Rights, Elections 2018, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Police-Public Safety, Politics, Sanctuary City By Ken Epstein “It’s time to…

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“It Makes No Sense to Sell Public Land,” Say Local Residents

Posted in Affordable Housing, Elections 2018, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Post Salon Attending this week’s Rules and Legislation Committee to support a moratorium on the…

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Activist Cat Brooks Joins Race for Mayor of Oakland

Posted in Against White Supremacy, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Immigrant Rights, Labor, Libby Schaaf, Oakland Job Programs, Police-Public Safety, Racial profiling, Rebecca Kaplan, Responsive Government, Restorative Justice Cat Brooks,…

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Opinion: Re-elect Desley Brooks to City Council

Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Community, Desley Brooks, Economic Development, Elections 2018, Equal Rights/Equity, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Oakland Job Programs, Politics, Racial profiling, Reentry/Formerly Incarcerated, Responsive Government By Dan Siegel, Oakland…

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Councilmembers Delay Vote on Proposal for Construction Job Opportunities for Oaklanders

Pre-apprenticeship building trades trainees from the Cypress Mandela Training Center, which was founded by the Oakland Private…

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Open Letter: Oakland Mayor Should Reject Job Policies That Increase Discrimination Against Black Workers

Posted in Affordable Housing, Against White Supremacy, Economic Development, Equal Rights/Equity, Gentrification, Housing/Foreclosures, Labor, Libby Schaaf Black Americans have twice as much unemployment as white workers….

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Opinion: Full Funding For Apprentice Training and City Job Centers

By Desley Brooks, District 6 Councilwoman Construction is booming in Oakland. From almost anywhere in the city…

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Stopping the Stadium Mega-Development Was an Important Victory, But This Fight Is Far from Over

By Alvina Wong After four months of organizing by Laney students, faculty, and staff, Chinatown and Eastlake…

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Poll Shows Most Oaklanders Want Oakland A’s to Stay at the Coliseum

Laney “is the worst site you can pick to put a baseball stadium,” says Council President Larry…

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