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Media pieces where our advocates and partners amplified issues facing unhoused communities in Oakland

Impacts of Storms on Oakland's Unhoused: Guest Talya Husbands-Hankin

Feb 7, 2024

KPFA Radio: Law & Disorder with Cat Brooks

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'Criminal for Existing': US’s unhoused still fear sweeps as supreme court to take on shelter case

Feb 1, 2024

The Guardian

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Mayor weighs charging other towns if their homeless people move to Oakland

Jun 1, 2023

San Francisco Chronicle

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California’s homeless battle floods and storms

Jan 13, 2023

BBC News

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As Storms Hammer California, Homeless Campers Try to Survive Outside

Jan 12, 2023

New York Times

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Plan for Safe Work Zones' Around Homeless Camps Alarms Advocates 

November 15, 2022

Oaklandside

The Eviction of an Encampment

Guest:

Talya Husbands-Hankin

September 15, 2022

94.1 KPFA

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Oakland's Biggest Homeless Encampement Could Massively Shrink With Planned Sweep of 200 People

July 15, 2022

San Francisco Chronicle

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Oakland's Scathing Encampment Audit

April 22, 2021

Oaklandside

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 'Food is Love': After Closing its Winter Homeless Shelter, Oakland's St. Mary's Center Tried Something New

March 12, 2021

Oaklandside

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Critics Blast Alameda County for closing Most of Its Hotels for the Homeless by February

December 3, 2020

San Francisco Chronicle

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Mayor Schaff Taps Oakland Homeless Commission Members Amid Spike in Unhoused Residents

November 11, 2020

San Francisco Chronicle

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Homeless? Unhoused? Unsheltered? Word Choice Matters When Reporting On Oaklanders Who Don't Have Permanent Housing

November 10, 2020

The Oaklandside

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Oakland Has a New Homeless Camp Policy, Despite Protests

October 21, 2020

The Oaklandside

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Checkout Time: Pandemic Hotels For Bay Area Homeless Residents Set to Close

October 10, 2020

Mercury News

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Oakland Officials Present New Homeless Policy, Faces Criticism from Advocates

Sept 24, 2020

The Post News Group

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Oakland Moves Forward With New Rules Governing Homeless Encampments

Sept 21, 2020

Mercury News

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WOMAN BARRICADED INSIDE OAKLAND MOTEL LEAVES PEACEFULLY AFTER 16-HOUR PROTEST

May 23, 2020

KQED News

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UNSHELTERED LEADERS OF 37 MLK DEMAND TO BE HOUSED IN HOTELS

May 22,2020

Street Spirit

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OAKLAND CITY ADMINISTRATOR HAS THE POWER TO COMMANDEER HOTEL ROOMS NOW:  WHY HASN'T THE MAYOR DIRECTED HIM TO DO IT?

May 22, 2020

City of Oakland Code of Ordinances &  March 23rd Emergency Order of the City of Oakland

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ALAMEDA COUNTY MOVES HUNDREDS OF HOMELESS TO HOTELS AMID FEAR OF CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK

April 22nd, 2020

San Francisco Chronicle

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OAKLAND BLACK HOUSING UNION ORGANIZES MOBILE MARCH TO DEMAND HOUSING FOR HOMELESS

April 12th, 2020

Indybay

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PRESS RELEASE: ZOOM TOWN HALL SPEAK OUT

April 8, 2020

Press release by The Village, East Oakland Collective and Love and Justice in the Streets

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‘A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH:’ PLAN TO HOUSE BAY AREA HOMELESS DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAK SPURS HOPE, QUESTIONS

March 17, 2020

Mercury News

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EAST OAKLAND UNHOUSED RESIDENTS GRANTED COURT ORDER DEMANDING CITY FOLLOW ITS OWN POLICIES

March 3, 2020

Indybay

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THIS OAKLAND NEIGHBORHOOD IS SUPPORTING A COMMUNITY FOR UNHOUSED BLACK WOMEN

December 11, 2019

The Bold Italic

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OAKLAND PROPOSES CRACKDOWN ON HOMELESS CAMPERS IN PARKS AND ON SIDEWALKS

December 4, 2019

San Francisco Chronicle

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“STATE OF EMERGENCY”: SPECIAL REPORT ON CALIFORNIA’S CRIMINALIZATION OF GROWING HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS

October 25, 2019

Democracy Now

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AS HOMELESSNESS SURGES IN CALIFORNIA, SO DOES A BACKLASH

October 21, 2019

New York Times

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ARE OAKLAND’S CABINS A SUCCESS? HOMELESS ADVOCATES QUESTION CITY’S NUMBERS

September 30, 2019

San Francisco Chronicle

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UNHOUSED WEST OAKLAND RESIDENTS EVICTED

Sept 26, 2019

The Post News Group

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FEDERAL JUDGE BLOCKS OAKLAND FROM REMOVING HOMELESS CAMP

November 13, 2018

East Bay Express

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