SF News Real Estate Firm That Owned 'Moms 4 Housing' House Hit With $3.5M Penalty From State Wedgewood, the real estate investment firm that is best known locally for their role in a standoff with a group of homeless Oakland mothers two years ago, has reportedly reached a $3.5 million settlement with the state of California over its eviction practices statewide.
SF Politics Moms 4 Housing Organizer Wins Oakland City Council Seat, Beating Incumbent The woman who's credited with being the mastermind behind last fall's Moms 4 Housing protest in West Oakland, Carroll Fife, has unseated incumbent City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney, marking a shift toward a more progressive electorate in parts of Oakland.
SF News Property Occupied By Moms 4 Housing Activists Has Been Sold — and Will Become Sanctuary for the Homeless Nearly a year after the Moms 4 Housing created a national dialogue around housing rights, the West Oakland property the activists once occupied has now been purchased by the Oakland Community Land Trust (OakCLT) — and will be converted into a shelter for mothers experiencing homelessness.
SF News Activist Behind Moms 4 Housing Sets Her Eyes on Oakland City Council Run Carroll Fife, alongside the other Moms 4 Housing members, took hold of the country's attention last year after occupying an empty West Oakland abode, helping make the case that housing rights are human rights. Now, Fife is funneling that philanthropic notoriety into a run for Oakland City Council.
SF News ‘Moms 4 Housing’-Style Demonstration Occupies Vacant Castro House As COVID-19 hammers the unhoused population, two renegade women have occupied a Castro house that’s been sitting on the market for years. A police melee ensued.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Founder Is Daughter Of Homeless Woman Gifted a Piedmont In-Law Unit Last Year You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
SF News Moms 4 Housing May Get to Own West Oakland Home After All The real estate investment firm that owns the home on Magnolia Street in West Oakland where a group of homeless mothers and their children were squatting in recent months has caved and agreed to negotiate a sale of the property to an Oakland nonprofit.
SF News Mayor Breed Announces She's Added 1,065 New Shelter Beds Since 2018 With the declaration of a yet-opened SAFE Navigation Center in the Upper Market area — a community touchstone that'll add up to 200 shelter beds — this week, Mayor Breed will fulfill her 2018 promise of bringing a thousand new shelter beds to San Francisco. But is that enough?
SF News SF Pride Looks To Ban Alameda County Sheriff's Office From Parade Amidst Moms 4 Housing Eviction In protest against the handling of the eviction of Moms 4 Housing from their West Oakland home, seven members of San Francisco Pride push to ban the Alameda County Sheriff's Office from participating in this year's Pride parade.
SF News Newsom Pledges 'Wonderful Things' For Moms 4 Housing Group As he wrapped up a statewide tour of programs to address homelessness on Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom called the protesting moms in West Oakland "courageous," and said that his staff would be meeting with them.
SF News After Arrests and Eviction, Moms 4 Housing Group Plots Next Steps The two women who were arrested Tuesday morning at the home in which they were squatting in West Oakland were released following misdemeanor charges. Now the group Moms 4 Housing is hoping they can keep the momentum going.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Group Evicted and 3 Arrested In Dramatic Pre-Dawn Raid Perhaps this was the Alameda County Sheriff's Department's idea of ending things peacefully and without incident, but two of the homeless mothers who have been squatting at a West Oakland residence since November were met with a militaristic raid early Tuesday morning.
SF News [Update] Moms 4 Housing Offered Relocation Help But They've Refused To make the transition easier, the real estate investment firm that owns the home has said it is willing to pay for the move and for the women's shelter for the next two months. The women call the offer "an insult."
SF News Judge Orders West Oakland Moms Squatting In Vacant Home To Be Evicted The saga of Moms 4 Housing appears to be coming to a close as a judge on Friday ordered that the women who have been occupying a vacant property in West Oakland must leave or be removed by the Sheriff. The decision is very likely to draw more protest.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Hearing Draws Huge Crowd, Judge Agrees to Consider Case The moms can remain at the West Oakland house they’ve crashed for now, but a final ruling is expected in the next 24 hours as an Alameda County Superior Court judge declined to toss out their request to stay.
