Posts Tagged ‘causa justa’
Restore Oakland combines a restorative economic and justice
Several Oakland organizations are uniting to bring economic growth to the city by opening a community advocacy and training center in a renovated building on International Boulevard, in the center of the Fruitvale community. Restore Oakland will provide community members with job preparation programs and offer services like a tenants’ rights clinic and a restaurant that will also be a work training site.
Read MoreCommittee to Protect Oakland Renters volunteers go door-to-door promoting Measure JJ
Last Saturday Committee to Protect Oakland Renters volunteers walked door-to-door asking residents to vote yes on a ballot measure called Measure JJ that would regulate Oakland rent increases and evictions.
Read MoreOakland residents have a mixed reaction to their new neighbor: Uber
Uber is coming to downtown Oakland, residents worry they will be the ones disrupted.
Read MoreCity Council poised to vote on two ideas aimed at combating foreclosures in Oakland
The City Council is slated Tuesday to vote on two different approaches to the problem of multiple property foreclosures in Oakland. One tries to help homeowners threatened with foreclosure in the city’s hardest-hit neighborhoods, while the other would require investors who snatch up properties under foreclosure to fix them up, both inside and out. The…
Read MoreOccupy, Causa Justa, protesters take over vacant home, rally against foreclosures
At least 100 people gathered outside the West Oakland BART on Tuesday afternoon to march to a vacant house in West Oakland to protest the foreclosure of a family’s home. The protest was organized by Occupy Oakland and Causa Justa, an organization that advocates for tenant and immigrant rights.
Read MoreHomeowners urge changes to ease Oakland’s foreclosure crisis
A small group of Oakland homeowners led by the housing rights group Causa Justa, Just Cause (CJCC), gathered outside of Wells Fargo’s main branch in downtown Oakland Thursday afternoon to publicly propose solutions to the city’s foreclosure crisis.
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