housing Archives - Oakland Voices

Oakland resident Tomiquia Moss leads California housing agency

August 26, 2026 Rasheed Shabazz

Oakland’s Tomiquia Moss appointed to lead California housing and homelessness agency

Alameda County to transfer vacant property to Black Cultural Zone for affordable housing development

July 30, 2026 Bella Liu

“This is a win-win-win scenario for community, affordable housing, and East Oakland,” Casey Farmer said.

Mia Bonta’s AB 801 Targets Racial Homeownership Gap

July 27, 2026 California Black Media

Mia Bonta’s AB 801 seeks greater lending transparency amid California’s racial homeownership divide.

Opinion – When Wall Street buys up the neighborhood

May 28, 2026 California Black Media

Craig DeLuz argues that corporate-landlord concentration impacts Black homeownership.

Cities scramble to comply with or fight major state housing law

May 15, 2026 Cal Matters

Oakland elected officials want upzoning immediately available.

Unhoused families left waiting months for West Oakland apartments

March 11, 2026 Rasheed Shabazz

Unhoused families said they lacked housing while waiting for affordable complex to open.

California rent control bill dies in Assembly committee

January 27, 2026 California Black Media

For the second year in a row, the state Legislature hals a rent control proposal.

East Bay organizations address racial wealth gap, promote Black homeownership

December 26, 2024 Katharine Davies Samway

Some racial justice advocates promote Black homeownership as a form of reparations, seeking to address the longstanding effects of slavery.

A Black woman wearing a beanie is holding back a smile.

One Oakland Woman’s Journey From the Streets to Being an Advocate for the Unsheltered

December 23, 2021 Debora Gordon

On any given night, over half a million Americans experience homelessness. A 2019 count indicated more than 4,000 unhoused residents live in Oakland. Resheemah White, also known to friends as “RoRo,” was one of them

black and white image of tents set up in the early 1930s in Oakland, dubbed "Pipe City"

Pipe Dreams: Makeshift Living in Oakland is Nothing New

May 11, 2021 Kat Ferreira

Oakland Voices correspondent Kat Ferreira digs into the history of unhoused populations in Oakland, from Pipe City to the current encampments at the same location.