500 14th St.
Oakland
CA
Hey folks! time to roll deep to the Life Enrichment Committee (LEC) at Oakland City Hall.
on the agenda is a crucial report and recommendation that if passed and implemented as policy will upgrade the quality of life in every encampment across Oakland while we wait for permanent deeply affordable housing to be built, and will protect informal settlements with tiny homes like the village from being sabatouged and destroyed.
for the past 5 months, Councilwoman Nikki Fortunato Bas has been leading the charge to ensure the city of Oakland will not only acknowledge and protect the constitutional rights and human rights of our curbside neighbors, but that the city’s policies and practices are informed by those rights. working with Councilperson Rebecca Kaplan‘s office, the two have been meeting with homeless advocates and unhoused leaders to formulate the report and recommendations below.
if passed by the LEC, the report and recommendations will go to full city council for vote. if city council passes, it will be transformed and implemented into policy. this is a real game changer!
dealing with the bureaucracy has been frustrating, stressful, painful and at times harmful. its like being in a hamster wheel going no where. but we have a chance to get off the hamster wheel, and make some really progress and movement forward to ensuring our people on the streets have everything they need during this crisis in a dignified, humanitarian, and empowering way.
please sign up to speak in support of this report and recommendations. even if you don’t plan on speaking, you can give you time to someone who has a lot to say but ran out of time. and for those who do want to speak, we will have talking points on the day of for you.
lets do this!
here’s the amazing, dream report and recommendation:
https://docs.google.com/…/2PACX-1vSE868GsAkIK5CODC_Qnh2…/pub
thank you Councilwoman Bas and Councilperson Kaplan for being the champions of Oakland’s most vulnerable.