Housing
Stay the course. That was the message given to those sitting in the front row of Oakland’s city council chambers Friday night, when friends and supporters gathered to watch 29 men and women graduate from the BOSS Career Training and Employment Center, in a ceremony that acknowledged the significant hurdles they had overcome to gain employment while under the supervision of the Alameda County Probation Department. BOSS, which stands for Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, is an East Bay non-profit which…
Demonstrator’s outside of Oakland City Hall participated in the national Renter’s Day of Action on September 22, highlighting the Oakland City Measure JJ that would introduce stricter regulations on landlords.
Volunteers at Oakland Animal Services are starting a new working cats program to both boost cat adoptions and help control rodents in homes and businesses around the Bay Area.
Tenants in a 39-unit Single Room Occupancy (SRO) on the edge of Oakland Chinatown are expecting better living conditions after an Alameda County Superior Court judge ordered the owners to improve it by October 7.
A proposed high-rise tower and a police recommendation for security cameras created tension at the Temescal Neighborhood Council meeting.
Planning directors discuss Oakland’s lack of affordable housing and efforts to provide more.
Workers in the East Bay are willing to drive miles from their homes to earn a higher minimum wage than their home cities offer.
After a year of collecting eviction data and personal accounts, members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project unveiled their latest oral history map and urged supporters to take action by protesting and raising awareness of evictions.
How the high cost of housing is affecting refugee resettlement in Oakland