April 2016 - Oakland Voices

Oakland Voices Class Members Find their Muse

April 28, 2016 Tom Webb

If you ask a journalist why he or she chooses to engage in this craft, you’re bound to find 101 reasons. But the newest community journalists trained by the Oakland Voices program were nearly univocal

An excerpt of Dimensions Dance Theater’s “The Town … On Notice” about the housing crisis

April 26, 2016 Randy Filio

Latino Community Foundation’s Latino Equity Summit

April 25, 2016 Rosalinda Hernandez

Last month, I attended the Latino Equity Summit at the Sheraton Grand in Sacramento, California. The Summit brings together Latino leaders, advocates and policymakers in an effort to discuss community solutions to assist the Latino

Community Forum on Affordable Housing

April 20, 2016 Randy Filio

The Impact of Impact Fees

April 17, 2016 Bill Joyce

Having prayed outside City Hall for the “soul of the city and an end to the housing crisis,” about 60 low- income Oakland residents, housing advocates and clergy filed into the packed March 22 meeting

Life in the Time of Displacement

April 15, 2016 Mustafa Solomon

My story starts back about five years ago. I lived at my last address for 18 years, but lived in Oakland for 36. While living there, I paid my taxes and sent my children

Focus on Affordable Housing

April 8, 2016 Sabah Williams

Oakland Voices held their second forum “Focus on Affordable Housing” on April 7th at the 81st Avenue Branch Library in East Oakland and panelists highlighted the policies and strategies that can preserve affordable housing in