The Oakland Community Land Trust is dedicated to the perpetual affordability & stewardship of land & housing for, & with, low-income Oakland residents.
Oakland, CA
Joined March 2011
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What is a Community Land Trust? A CLT is a not-for-profit organization that owns the land to ensure long-term housing affordability and it is what allowed our ambassador to become a homeowner!
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#HousingJustice
Preserve the Foreclosure Intervention Housing Preservation Program! “This intervention comes in before people are completely priced out of the community before they live on the streets, where interventions are extremely costly,” Goldberg said. @CAgovernor kqed.org/news/11985420/newso…
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Let’s champion the path toward real housing solutions! Allow SB 555 a fair vote. 🏘️ #PassSB555 @GavinNewsom @CASpeakerRivas @CAgovernor @alex_lee @Evan_Low @aishabbwahab
Remembering Gus Newport, former Berkeley mayor and lifelong progressive activist berkeleyside.org/2023/06/23/…
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
🆕 Together with the Common Counsel Foundation, we're thrilled to announce the launch of the Community Ownership for Community Power (COCP) Fund, a bold $22M philanthropic initiative that addresses the housing crisis in CA.
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Happening in less than an hour...come through!!! Pathways to Tenant & Community Control: Financing Strategies for Community Land Trusts | LISC @SF_CLT @LISCInstitute lisc.org/our-events/event/pa…
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Join us 10/21 for a conversation with @LISCBayArea @oakclt and @SF_CLT on how to build power and secure resources to expand tenant and community control of housing! Register here: lisc.org/our-events/event/pa…
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The Rev. Charles Sherrod, a front-line warrior for civil rights who became the first field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, died Oct. 11 at his home in Albany, Ga. He was 85. wapo.st/3rTtVxd
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
All of @GroundedNetwork is incredibly sad to learn of the passing of #communitylandtrust model founder, New Communities leader and Civil Rights Movement icon; Rev. Charles Sherrod. His great legacy lives on in our work & the communities we serve. washingtonpost.com/obituarie…
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🔥🔥🔥Alex Acuna @oakclt "arming the community with difficult-to-find public information allows people to learn about buildings with negligent owners and possibly acquire those properties to keep them permanently affordable" evictorbook.com
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Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Corporate landlords often hide behind complex networks of LLCs and LPs to avoid accountability while they push out low-income tenants of color. Our tool #Evictorbook pulls back the curtain to show who is really driving the region’s housing crisis evictorbook.com
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Residents of @saveuctownhomes in Philadelphia are fighting to save their homes from gentrification and redevelopment.
"Over the years, I've seen what was invested into our community slowly stripped away from us," says resident leader and organizer Rasheda Alexander.
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Join @CalOrganize @OAKTenantsUnion @centrolegal @moms4housing and @carroll_fife at a screening of PUSH and learn the fight for #housingisahumanright this election cycle. RSVP: tinyurl.com/pushsept20
A reason to trust: Sacramento Community Land Trust aims to put people over profit @SacCLT sacramento.newsreview.com/20… @SacNewsReview
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Its a loophole that greedy corporations managed to find. My bill, #AB1837, is focused on ensuring that the intention matches the implementation.
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
NEW: A House investigation into Invitation Homes and three other major corporate landlords found that the companies filed evictions against nearly 15,000 residents while the federal moratorium was in place — three times the number previously known. bloom.bg/3PHQNdo
Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
VICTORY RECAP🎉: The longest rent strike in Oakland's history has ended after the 14-unit complex was sold to the @oakclt ✊🏼 We couldn't be prouder of the tenants that fought hard and refused to back down! 👩👦🏡 #KeepFamiliesHome
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Oakland Community Land Trust retweeted
Massive shout out to everyone along the way that made this victory happen. From the tenants who never gave up, to all the organizers that supported them, to @carroll_fife for negotiating w/ the landlord, & to @oakclt for ultimately making the sale happen!