[Note: This article originally appeared on the Shelterforce website here.] By Zachary Murray In late January, a standing-room only crowd gathered to celebrate a milestone that once seemed impossible. Exactly one year and five days prior to this celebration, residents and tenants of the 23rd Avenue Community Building (23rd Avenue)—a long-standing affordable, people of color led
In Oakland, Community-Owned Real Estate is Bucking Gentrification Trend By Sarah Trent, March 12, 2018 For two decades now, the building at the corner of 23rd and International avenues in east Oakland has been a community hub for people and organizations with few other places to go. In a neighborhood that is low-income
The board of directors and staff of the Oakland Community Land Trust mourn the loss of long-serving board member, Ellen Wyrick-Parkinson. Ms. Ellen passed away in early December at the age of 94. She originally joined the OakCLT board as an appointee of the West Oakland Project Area Committee (WOPAC), an
This past week, the Oakland Community Land Trust along with our CLT partners in the Bay Area Consortium of CLTs hosted over 500 CLT residents, staff, and board members, as well as housing advocates, policy makers, funders, and more for Grounded Solutions Network's Intersections 2017 conference at the Oakland Marriott Convention Center. OakCLT kicked off the
[Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2017 issue of Shelterforce and on their website here.] The term NOAH, or “naturally occurring affordable housing,” has quickly become an accepted phrase used to denote unsubsidized rental housing, generally more than 30 years old, that happens to be relatively affordable compared to housing in adjacent, more
