Berkeley Housing Authority is crushed by sequestration budget cuts
by Lynda Carson Berkeley – It’s hard times for Berkeley’s poor in the Section 8 (Housing Choice) voucher program, and it’s been very difficult for the low-income households that have recently been...
View ArticleCongresswoman Maxine Waters condemns RAD public housing privatization scheme
by Lynda Carson Oakland – Public housing is home to over 1.2 million families across the nation, mostly the elderly, disabled and low-income women with children. The Bay Area is home to thousands of...
View ArticlePeskin in, jail out
by Randy Shaw Aaron Peskin becomes the District 3 supervisor on Dec. 8 and will then join his colleagues in rejecting the planned new jail for San Francisco. There likely was a board majority against...
View ArticleMarcus Garvey Park in Oakland reclaimed for community housing and services by...
Encampment offers safe, dignified space City of Oakland unable to provide by #FeedthePeople and #Asians4BlackLives Oakland – At 4 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, a network of Oakland...
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