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Housing renovation funds may displace hundreds of families
Stop the displacement: Pack the CEDA meeting Tuesday, March 10, 2-4:30 p.m., at Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 1, first floor by Lynda Carson People everywhere are protesting the loss of affordable...
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Right to Return Weekend: Housing IS a human right!
Day 1: Survivors Village takes over housing office Displaced public housing residents staged a rally and sit-in May 28 to demand their unconditional right to return to their homes. More than one in...
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Black Friday 2010 ‘Housing Harvest’ occupation
by Carol Harvey At Creative Housing Liberation’s “Housing Harvest” rally Nov. 26, speakers declared that housing is a human right. The banner reads, “House keys not handcuffs.” – Photo: Carol Harvey On...
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‘California in Crisis’ details Wells Fargo’s damage to California’s...
by Tony Robles “Listen to your soul’s voice; it’ll tell you what you should do.” – Displayed on the screen of a Wells Fargo Bank ATM I work as a housing advocate in San Francisco, a city whose soul is...
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San Francisco housing squeeze disparately impacts African Americans
by Daniel Everett San Francisco’s housing woes are characterized by inflated rent and a shortage of residential units – a combination that has left many long-term residents feeling pushed out and...
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The vacant housing option for squatting in Oakland
by Lynda Carson Oakland – Calvin, a Vietnamese immigrant who moved to this country with his family when he was a child after the so-called Vietnam War ended, is a squatter who has quietly lived alone...
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Part One: She was homeless, so cops and Child Protective Services took her...
by Carol Harvey In 1999, San Francisco cops pounded on Liz Washington’s door and burst in with their hands on their guns. “It was like they were going to be in a shoot-out,” said Liz. Flourishing an...
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All eyes on San Francisco Dec. 15: Tell Supervisors to vote for NO NEW JAIL
Update: Communities claim victory against new SF jail after two year fight San Francisco, Dec. 15, 2015 – In a powerful public presence, community members and activists opposed to imprisonment...
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Oakland officials promote economic cleansing
by Lynda Carson Oakland – Funktown, which is near Lake Merritt, is rapidly being gentrified. No longer can you hear the sound of immigrants calling out, “Tamales for sale,” along Eighth Avenue and East...
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Rep. Maxine Waters unveils landmark legislation to end homelessness in America
Bill would provide $13.27 billion in emergency relief over five years by Danielle Parnass Washington, March 23, 2016 – Today, Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., ranking member of the Committee on...
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America, we have a problem: Homelessness is out of control
by Dr. Cynthia McKinney It’s hard to imagine that the country that controls so much nuclear firepower and drops so many bombs every day is unwilling to educate its children and house its own people. In...
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London Breed: San Francisco victorious in the fight for landmark affordable...
After weeks of negotiations between the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and San Francisco officials, HUD announced Sept. 21 that it will authorize neighborhood preference...
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Fight over skyrocketing Bay Area rents to hit the ballot box
Stakes high as tenants push back against landlords and real estate lobbyists on Nov. 8 by Lynda Carson Many long-time Bay Area residents have been displaced over the last several years. The stock of...
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Oakland’s affordable housing threatened by Trump’s proposed $6.2 billion...
Wealthy Heritage Foundation members demand massive budget cuts to domestic non-defense programs by Lynda Carson On March 21, Chicagoans protest the enormous cuts Trump’s budget proposes for HUD. The...
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Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party and the UK’s socialist surge
by Ann Garrison Great news when Theresa May’s Conservative Party lost their Parliamentary majority in the U.K.’s June 8 snap election and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party surged, adding 30 seats to their...
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Precarious housing in Oakland: Renting SRO hotel rooms to techies means more...
by Anti Eviction Mapping Project Single Room Occupancy hotels, traditionally available to those on fixed or very low incomes, are being marketed to new arrivals and tech industry workers, exacerbating...
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Does Martin v. Boise mean no more evictions of homeless people?
by Kheven LaGrone On Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, around 9:30 a.m., I took this picture in front of a homeless encampment at Lake Merritt. These signs were very prominent. They read: “Lake Merritt’s...
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‘Yes on Prop 10,’ says Danny Glover
by Danny Glover Jovanka Beckles, the Bay View’s proud choice for Assembly District 10, and Danny Glover campaign together for Yes on Prop 10. I was born in San Francisco and raised in the same...
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Wanda’s Picks for January 2019
by Wanda Sabir “How’m I doing,” asks the captain of the spaceship, Wanda’s grandson, on Kuumba (Creativity) or New Year’s Eve at Chabot Planetarium for the Countdown. She explains: “Chabot hosts a...
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Criminalization will not slow the pandemic
The housing crisis, a shelter in place order and the National Guard: It’s not just coronavirus and disaster capitalism that we need to resist in these unsure times but the increased criminalization of...
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