August In the News. Racial Justice Advocacy. Live Segment. Plus: The needs of unsheltered people during the coronavirus outbreak, then what would it take for everyone to have access to testing? November In the News. Arrests outside Oakland City Hall as protesters pitch tents, call out homeless strategy.
Oakland's homeless stats soar as pressure grows from residents, businesses for a solution October In the News. City Destroys Self-Made Homes. Oakland homeless camp to be cleaned up, residents forced out. Homeless encampment is torn down: Shanty town built under a train station in Oakland which spans several blocks and was home to 30 people is dismantled by authorities who claim it is a safety hazard. Fire concerns prompt Oakland to destroy pallet houses in homeless encampments.
Oakland 'Tent Drive' for three dozen unsheltered people soon to lose makeshift homes. Oakland surpasses other large California cities in per capita homelessness. Oakland landlord tries, fails to pay homeless to leave encampment. Economic Empowerment. How a Trump program could spur a new wave of Bay Area development.
Oakland paving plan to focus on local streets. December In the News. Year in Review Whose Resilient Future? The plan is based upon listening sessions with unhoused residents, builds upon a human-rights best practice example implemented by The Village, and policy analysis conducted by UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy's Rawan Elhalaby and Dr. Dan Lindheim. See here for Rawan's Advanced Policy Analysis. In the News. UN report singles out homeless conditions in Oakland, San Francisco as 'cruel and inhumane.
Abandoned or lost? Oaklanders living in cars have homes towed away. Environmental Justice and Economic Empowerment. Take a listen. November Feed the Hood 3. Launched East Oakland SuSu Lending Circle Program, a microSolution of self-help which utilizes group economics, collective saving, and pooling resources.
