New estimates say it would cost a staggering $4.5 billion to house all homeless residents, but some officials say the city could be more creative.
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Posted inEducation Equity
Literacy tutoring programs show promise in Oakland
Most Oakland Unified School District third graders are not reading at grade level. Many schools are turning to “high-dosage” tutoring from community-based organizations to help.
Posted inCity Hall & Policing
‘Dear Oakland politicians’: Letters from students at Fremont High
10th-graders share their messages for Oakland’s next mayor, City Council, and school board members.
Posted inCity Hall & Policing
After mistakes in 2020, is Alameda County ready for the 2022 election?
A judge rejected a public records lawsuit brought by two voting rights organizations hoping to pressure the county to hand over voting data.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Oakland’s outgoing head of housing talks evictions, buying buildings, and red tape
Shola Olatoye, who’s leaving the city to join an affordable housing developer, reflects on her three years on the job.
Posted inArts & Community
Brookfield Duece maps his journey with audio ‘Coordinates’
The East Oakland rapper and member of Grand Nationxl just dropped a new album.
Posted inArts & Community
The remarkable rise of the Oakland Roots: The Town’s homegrown soccer club
Professional sports teams have used and abandoned Oakland. Could the Oakland Roots be different?
Posted inNosh Features
How a mother and daughter reinvented Oakland’s 65-year-old Fortune Factory
Jiamin and Alicia Wong are changing people’s assumptions of what a fortune cookie looks and tastes like.
Posted inEducation Equity
Oakland high schoolers prepare to ‘boycott’ over COVID safety
With omicron surging, over a thousand students have signed a petition calling on OUSD to do more to make campuses safer.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
After a pandemic pause, Oakland ramped up homeless camp closures again. Why?
The city’s reasons for shutting down encampments aren’t always clear to those who are directly impacted. We reviewed two years of data to identify patterns.
Posted inCity Hall & Policing
5 years after Oakland’s deadliest fire: Ghost Ship ‘frozen in time’
Some want a memorial or park on the warehouse ruins. For others, Oakland is a place of pain they’re moving on from.
Posted inHealth & Environment
The problem and potential of Oakland’s parks
From the hills to Lake Merritt, the city is home to beautiful parklands. But who gets to enjoy them is determined by long-standing racial and class divides.
Posted inHealth & Environment
A drunk driver crashed into a popular Oakland market. Now, it’s struggling to survive
Every year, cars destroy a handful of small businesses, upending shop owner’s lives and revealing street safety issues.
Posted inCity Hall & Policing
Lauded as a national model, some question whether Oakland’s privacy commission is working
Frequent disputes with police over records has begun to wear on the volunteer board leading the commission chair to sue the city.
Posted inCity Hall & Policing
10 years ago, OPD forcefully dismantled the Occupy Oakland camp
An Oct. 25 protest led to a grave injury and lasting consequences for the Oakland Police Department.
Posted inHealth & Environment
Listen: Remembering the 1991 Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm
To mark the fire’s 30th anniversary, we produced a 30-minute podcast looking back at the historic blaze that forever changed how the East Bay looks at wildfires.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
Oakland Home Histories: Wartime housing, mink scarves, and making room for change
An Adams Point triplex owner asks: Which parts of the past are worth preserving?
Posted inHealth & Environment
‘Invisible’ overdoses are hiding the true scale of Alameda County’s opioid crisis
Far from being passive victims, opioid users on Oakland streets use Narcan to save each other’s lives by the hundreds each year. But those rescues go uncounted by the government.
Posted inNosh
Wahpepah’s Kitchen brings a new wave of Indigenous food to Oakland
Crystal Wahpepah says her restaurant is a place to eat, learn and heal.
Posted inArts & Community
The Oakland reverend using hip-hop to talk about gun violence
Reverend Harry “OG Rev” Williams talks with The Oaklandside about his urban ministering career and connecting with young people.