The Village in Oakland

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

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

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 …