Our Housing and Building Team is our most well-known program. It came out of the direct action the birthed The Village in Oakland.
This team 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 three 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. The City of Oakland has buldozed all the villages we built from the ground up, however the structures we errected in existing commuities are still standing.
- First Tiny Home Village: The Promise Land
- 2nd Village: Two Three Hunid Tent CIty
- 3rd Village: Housing & Dignity Village
- Exisiting Curbside Community: BK
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.