What is the community traffic safety initiative, how does it address traffic safety and why this program now.

What is Oakland’s new film rebate program and how can it lead to just economic development and create new municipal revenue, while supporting small businesses and local workers.

Creating the ecosystem where permanently affordable housing can become a reality in Oakland, and two housing opportunities at OakCLT.

Part two of a three-part series: how housing became a financial product and how this process is the major driver of the global housing crisis today.

In this newsletter: What is financialization, how financialization led to the 2008 housing crisis, financialization today: private-equity and single-family homes, and what has financialization meant for Oakland?

In This Newsletter:

Part one of a three-part newsletter series: the history behind the myth of homeownership and how New Deal housing programs created a two-tier private housing market that still contributes to our housing crisis today.

Also: Community meetings on traffic safety, open seats on citizen commissions, and Black History / Black Futures Month film screenings.

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Opening statement on community safety, what has worked and hasn’t worked, and how crime stories are complex.

Also: Funding secured for the Department of Violence Prevention, Activate Oakland grants, and opportunities for community input.

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Opening statement on the end of the American empire requiring us to do the daily work of building alternate systems and structures.

Also: What was redlining and urban renewal, what is in Oakland’s new budget, West Oakland health clinics, and more.

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Opening statement on what is racism and how racial discourse is being co-opting to stoke division and undermine concern and support for historically-marginalized communities.

Also: Black New Deal Study moves forward, District 3 honors Mike Cheng of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee, rent registry now live, vacancies for citizen boards and commissions, and more.

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Opening statement on how we can build a positive housing program that increases homelessness services and sites, uses public lands for public use, and addresses displacement.

Also: Abandoned vehicles now addressed by civilian employees instead of OPD, eviction moratorium, tax reductions for small businesses, and more.

Items In This Newsletter:

Opening reflection on lessons from the past as some dynamics and tactics utilized to stifle Black progress, particularly around power and control, never truly went away; what we can learn from COINTELPRO today.

Also: Fitzgerald Park Clean-Up; Tax Reductions From Progressive Taxation; New Efforts To Research and Create Resources For Harassment In Local Politics and More.

In This Newsletter:

Where We Landed 2022 and Where We’re Headed 2023; January Posts Regarding Threats Of Violence Increases; Grants; Events and more.

Newsletter Highlight: A Two-Pronged Approach To Public Safety Issues

In This Newsletter

Ballot Measures And Continued Organizing; Year End Legislation: Oakland On The Path To A Public Bank and Increased Public Funding Through an EIFD; Grants Available For Business Facade and Interior Improvements; Grants Available For City Arts and Cultural Projects; Requesting Services From The Mobile Assistance Community Responders of Oakland (MACRO) Program, and more.

In This Newsletter:

Updates On The Wood Street Encampment; District 3’s Public Safety Townhall; Universal Basic Mobility Pilot - Free Transit Passes For West Oaklanders; Rent Registry Workshops; West Oakland Nest Community Clean-Up - Wednesday October 26th; West Oakland Farmers Market Diverting Food Waste; Images From In The Community

In This Newsletter:

A Deep Dive Into Ballot Measure Q: Article 34 Authorization; Three Solutions To Wood Street; District 3 Public Safety Townhall on Oct 8th; West Oakland Farmers Market - Get The Word Out

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The Department of Violence Prevention Receives A Grant For $6 million; Honoring Bill Russell; 80 Street Improvements Throughout Oakland Have Begun; OakDOT Hiring For Crossing Guards; Algae Blooms in Lake Merritt; Thursday LIVE - Reviewing Oakland Municipal Ballot Measures in November’s Election; Save the Malonga Arts Center.

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New Social Housing In Oakland May Become A Reality; On The Path To A Black New Deal In Oakland; Municipal Ballot Measures Passed This Month; Reflections On The Emerald New Deal; Reflections On Public Safety And Crime In Oakland and more.

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Learning From The Alabama’s Civil Rights District; Update On How City Council Passed Legislation To Protect Oakland Renters From High Rent Increases And What This Means For The Average Tenant; Oakland’s General Plan; Townhalls On The Fair Share Business Tax, Parking Meters And More.

In This Newsletter:

Resolution Approved To Study The Feasibility Of Housing 1000 Unhoused Residents At The North Gateway Parcel; Scheduling A Vote On The Record High Allowable Rent Increase Being Considered By Oakland.