Tag Archives: The Village

The Village’s first new tiny house owner moves into her new home

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In early April, members of The Village finally moved their first residents into what will serve as their home until next fall. The activist-led group has been working since mid-January to build houses for the...
Construction begins at The Village

A village for the homeless

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The City of Oakland approved a new experimental short-term housing solution, called The Village. After a year of negotiations, they've been granted land by the city, and are building houses for the homeless.
Dolores, a 69 year old woman, is one of hundreds of Oakland residents sleeping in Oakland streets due to the housing affordability crisis

Advocates push Oakland officials to treat homelessness as an emergency

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Community members and city officials struggle to confront the the epidemic of hundreds of Oakland residents--most of them black, many of them elders--sleeping on the streets due to to skyrocketing rents and a lack of...
Corvin Busche, a student at Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in Germany studying Oakland's homeless community, sits in front of a homeless encampment in Oakland. He said that he could see a thin layer of white ash from the smoke caused by the wildfires. “It was like making a fire in the woods,” he said.

Volunteers distribute respiratory masks to the homeless in Oakland

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Volunteers from Oakland-based organizations are distributing respiratory masks to homeless people in Oakland to stave off poor air quality caused by historic wildfires in California's Wine Country.