Monday, May 27th, 2013
This past weekend, I moved out of my place in Deep East Oakland. I still work at 98th and International — in a middle-school after-school program — but my residence at 82nd and MacArthur drew to its natural close, the house where I’d lived during its renovation by a housing nonprofit I volunteer with now
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
by Jeremy Liu Earlier this year, more than 40 houses in my West Oakland neighborhood had scaffolding put up around them, while moving truck after moving truck lined up to move dozens of families en masse. Along...
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Pilar Reyes has a message for new wealth moving to Oakland Everybody knows that San Francisco is experiencing yet another tech boom and that this means a new era of prosperity for the city. As an observer...
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Tim McAtee explains why he lives in Oakland The first home I can remember was a two-bedroom apartment near downtown Chicago. This was around 1980, long before gentrification was a word people used. When anyone spoke about...
