Our Housing and Building Team is our most well-known program. It came out of the direct action in 2017 that pushed The Village into a movement.
This team of 150 volunteers is a non-violent direct action team that builds emergency tiny homes, community kitchens, communal bathhouses, bicycle powered washing machines, and tiny homes on wheels at curbside communities thru out Oakland. To date, the Housing & Dignity Build Team has built five Tiny Home Villages from the ground up, and has built structures in more than a dozen existing curbside communities to improve their living conditions on the street. As of May 14, 2025, the City of Oakland has bulldozed all the villages we built from the ground up and the last of the structures we built over the past 10 years.
- First Tiny Home Village: The Promise Land
- 2nd Village: Two Three Hunid Tent CIty
- 3rd Village: Housing & Dignity Village
- BK Tiny Homes
- Housing & Dignity Village
This was the first tiny home to go up at the 23rd Ave and E12th Street Village, built for a resident confined in a wheelchair. Her unit included as ADA ramp. The city bulldozed this house and moved the resident into a Tuff Shed, where she passed away. 
Our volunteers build emergency tiny homes that supersede the city’s own standards for Tuff Sheds and Palette Houses. 
The sense of normalcy, safety, dignity, and hope a tiny house gives someone who has been surviving in a tent is indescribable.