Housing/Gentrification
HOMEFULNESS - a poor people-led solution to Homelessness
A Poor & Indigenous People-led Solution to Houselessness
A sweat equity, permanent co-housing, education, arts, micro-business and social change project for landless/houseless and formerly houseless families and individuals.
PROJECT PLAN
I. 4-10 Family Housing Units, Multi-generational school/Media Center, Community Garden/Farm and Sliding Scale Cafe
Immune Tips for COVID-19 (and for cold and flu season in general)
POOR Magazine Demands an End to All Sweeps, Belonging Theft, Evictions and Foreclosures
POOR Magazine/Homefuness is formerly demanding a permanent end to:
-All "Sweeps", Belonging theft and all Criminalization of Unhoused peoples in this Covid19 Crisis and Forever.
-A Moratorium on Evictions of Low and no-income elders, families and workers in this Covid19 crisis and Forever
- A Moratorium on all Foreclosures of homes owned by individual families, disabled communities and elders
- A end to the shut off of utilities of families and elders disabled
Voting To Save Our Crums- Poor, Houseless & Still need to Vote
(Podcast from a Povertyskola on this here)
Fighting for the crums-
Cuz thats all we have Sun
EBT SSI Section 8
Hardly anything left on the
Poor peoples plate
Youth Skolaz Report: Permit Gangstas
Below are the reports from the DeeColonize Academy youth skolaz on the POOR Magazine meetings at City Hall trying to challenge the impact fees being imposed on Homefulness. Here is a petition on our behalf.
Photo: DeeColonize Academy youth skolaz learning about the law for self-advocacy at the Alameda County Law Library
SB 50- Article One in a Four-Part Series: The Lies, Damn Lies, Statistics, and Capitalism of the California Housing Crisis
As a low-income African-American living in the Bay Area, I have been through all the trials and tribulations the Brothas and Sistas have been through in America, and if I haven’t one of my friends or family members have suffered through it. This is the journey that we call America. A nation founded upon the tenets of patriarchy, white supremacy and hyper- capitalism. Yeah, folks, these are undisputed facts.
The Struggle to Build Housing When You are Homeless -Poor and homeless builders struggle with Permit Gangsterism and Politricks
“You owe $72,000 for these water and sewer permits,” said East Bay Municipal Water District (EBMUD) clerk to Homefulness
Homeless Builders Create their own Solutions to Homelessness while the City Slows Them Down & Charges Exorbitant Fees
Poor, Homeless, Bordered,Incarcerated, Indigenous and Disabled People launched Homefulness - a homeless peoples solution to homelessness in 2011. The City of Oakland Building Department has charged permit fees in excess of 35,000 and private corporations like PGE and DWP over 100,000 This situation makes it impossible for poor, working class Black, Brown and Homeless builders to build homes in Oakland.
