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The Village in Oakland

The Village in Oakland

Grassroots & volunteer-run by unhoused, housing insecure and formally unhoused folks

  • LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  • About Us
  • Reframing homelessness
  • Our Community
    • Core Team
    • Funders & Supporters
  • Upcoming Events
  • Our Work
    • Direct Services
    • Policy Advocacy
      • Policy Advocacy
      • Policy Reports We Have Worked On
    • Education
    • Word On The Curb – Media Advocacy
      • About Word On The Curb
      • Word On The Curb
    • Cardboard and Concrete Collective
      • Meet the Cardboard & Concrete Artists
      • What We Believe
      • Preview of Our Artistic Alchemy
      • Tarpestries
      • Past Events
    • 510Day!
    • Living Room Block Parties
    • Deeply Rooted Oakland – Oakland General Plan 2045
  • The Village in Oakland Years in Review 20017 – 2022:
  • Resources
  • Media
    • News
    • Past Events
    • Word On The Curb
  • Donate
  • Job Opportunities

The Village in Oakland provides services, support, advocacy, arts and media advocacy programs to unhoused students and unhoused workers in Oakland, and the broader Bay Area.

OUR WORK


Direct Services

We offer several direct services and support to unhoused residents, including sharing hot meals and groceries, building tiny home villages, building collective structures in existing curbside communities, and sanitation services at informal settlements.

Education

We offer political education to unhoused Oakland residents so they understand their constitutional rights, human rights, and government policies that apply to unhoused residents.

Cardboard & Concrete Collective

Our multi-disciplnary art collective of unhoused and formally unhoused residents of Oakland and Berkeley curates exhibits at galleries, provides art activities and political education to curbside communities, and organizes block parties for unhoused residents and their housed neighbors.

Policy Advocacy

Working with a human rights lens and in coalition with other advocates and unhoused leaders we draft, help inform and advocate local government polices on and audits of unhoused interventions.

Media Advocacy

Our media literacy program offers unhoused residents education and training on media advocacy, media critique and platforms for media production.

Word on the Curb

Our media advocacy program has a written word platform and two social media platforms.

WORD ON THE CURB!


Walking The Path of Plants

The Village August 23, 2023
By Joyous De Asis Miralle For Soul Food Shack/Word On The Curb One of the very first moments that I wanted to learn and understand our plant community, and that we are surrounded by medicine was when I was about 6 years old. As a baby, I was born with blocked tear ducts. My mother works with plant medicine, and …

The City’s Has A Chop Shop Under Contract to Tow Vehicles Unhoused People Live In!

The Village November 16, 2021
By Needa Bee I just got home from working last Wednesday- (i have been living in my vehicle in District 3 for three years in the same spot) – to find out four vehicles that were used as homes/businesses/livelihoods/services to the unhoused were stolen by the city of Oakland.  Our vehicle and three other vehicles people live and work …

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