Housing
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
Making space for more people without forcing out existing residents is a key dilemma of the housing crisis, affecting cities across the Bay Area. While large apartment buildings can take years to go up, advocates say tiny houses can go in now.
At the Hack Housing forum Wednesday evening, speakers argued for denser housing, impact fees on developers, and more development around BART stations in Oakland. At the forum, three housing experts and one entrepreneur pitched solutions to Oakland’s housing woes to a live audience.
BOSS staffers joined hands with Albany High School students to help some 1,000 people address a variety of health and social needs at their first homeless resource fair held in Oakland. Based on an event the organization holds in San Francisco called the Homeless Project Connect, executive director Donald Frazier said he decided it was time to try the project in the East Bay.
Oakland has become a city of mosts: the most unaffordable city in America, the fourth most expensive city, and the city with the fastest growing inequality, according the Brookings Institution.