Moms 4 Housing mastermind runs for Oakland City Council
After sparking a nation-wide reckoning with the Moms 4 Housing movement, Oakland activist Carroll Fife is taking her fight against homelessness to a new arena — local government.
Fife, one of the masterminds behind last year’s takeover of an empty West Oakland house by homeless and insecurely housed women, is running for Oakland’s District 3 City Council seat in the November election. If she wins a spot on the eight-person council, she intends to turn her focus toward redistributing wealth and property to provide housing for all, and abolishing policing as we know it.
Her candidacy is another nod to the boiling unrest in this East Bay city.