Housing/Gentrification
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.
Untold, UnSold: Black, Brown,Red, Broke & Disabled Voices in Black History Month
So far there are three events in February and March-
*NOTE Time change in West Oakland EVENT
Feb 20th 6-7ipm - SF Main Branch Library- 100 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102- (Latino Room) As part of SF’s Poet Laureate, Kim Shuck’s Poetry Jam
Feb 26th 5-7:30pm West Oakland Library -1801 Adeline West Oakland, Ca 94605
March 13th 7pm InTegriTea- 717 Marin - Vallejo, Ca
MOMS4Housing Vs RealESnakkkes Fierce Mamaz Resist Devil-Opers for Thousands of us houseless mamaz
(Image of Misty Croft, cofounder of Moms4Housing and Carol Fife with ACCE)
