Oakland News SF Bay Area By Zennie62Media Inc & Zennie Abraham
Oakland News SF Bay Area By Zennie62Media Inc & Zennie Abraham
Oakland’s Housing Market Is Collapsing Under The Lack Of Help From Trump And Congress ONN – Oakland’s Housing Market Is Collapsing Under The Lack Of Help From Trump And Congress – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Oakland’s Housing Market Is Collapsing Under The Lack Of Help From Trump And Congress The housing market prices in Oakland […]
Berkeley News from The Office of Councilmember Ben Bartlett The City of Berkeley is updating our COVID-19 Health Order to align with the State of California’s regional stay home order, effective 12:01am Monday, December 7. Under the New regional Stay at Home Order, California is split into 5 regions, with the Order being triggered if […]
Oakland Natural Gas Ban Done Without Economic Impact Analysis, Needs Affordable Housing Exception ONN – Oakland Natural Gas Ban Done Without Economic Impact Analysis, Needs Affordable Housing Exception – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube On Tuesday, the Oakland City Council passed what would be a ban on natural gas use in all new building construction if […]
City of Oakland outdoor youth programming, senior programs, homeless services and library sidewalk service continue without change Oakland, CA – Due to the recent spike in COVID-19 cases (10,733 current cases as of November 30, 2020 in Oakland per Alameda County Public Health Department), and coupled with the fact that the holiday season and gatherings […]
Oakland Passes Natural Gas Ban, Dan Kalb Celebrates With Downtown Luxury High Rise Atlas Apartments Pict The Oakland City Council just passed a ban on the use of natural gas in new residential and commercial buildings. This was the rationale posted here Tuesday: Oakland City Council will consider groundbreaking legislation to improve building safety and […]
Oakland Community Cabins // Project Spotlight From YouTube Channel: November 20, 2020 at 04:21PM ONN – With six tiny villages throughout the City of Oakland, this is the behind-the-scenes discussion of how a community is coming together to end homelessness with transitional rapid shelter. Starring: -Talia Rubin, LCSW // City of Oakland (Government Lead) -Joe DeVries // City of Oakland (Government Lead) -Jim […]
Oakland Sought Proposals From White Developers To Compete Against Black NFL Group For Coliseum ONN – Oakland Sought Proposals From White Developers To Compete Against Black NFL Group For Coliseum – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube City Of Oakland Sought Proposals From White Developers To Compete Against Black NFL Group For Coliseum Former Oakland Raiders / […]
Oakland – Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, OUSD Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammel, and non-profit Community Development Finance announced an innovative new pilot program that will provide affordable housing options for teachers and help keep educators rooted in Oakland. The pilot program offers ‘teacher-residents’ — graduate students training with mentor teachers while completing their teaching credential — the […]
SOBEO Housing for All, Episode 2, Segment 2B: Oakland history is rooted in West Oakland From YouTube Channel: November 12, 2020 at 10:33AM ONN – Toni Cook, Oakland Ebonics Policy Creator, Featured In SOBEO Housing for All YouTube Video Although the video is not about the subject, their interview subject, Toni Cook, is the creator […]
“This is like Tech and Innovation meets Housing Crisis!” – Mayor of Oakland From YouTube Channel: November 11, 2020 at 08:11PM ONN – Mighty Buildings: This is like Tech and Innovation meets Housing Crisis! – Mayor of Oakland Mighty Buildings says: Learn more about Mayor of Oakland Libby Schaaf visit to Mighty Buildings’ production facility […]
The Oakland City Council calls for State Legislation to Give Affordable Housing Entities Priority to Purchase Residential Homes Up For Tax Auction The Oakland City Council (unanimously) passed a resolution, introduced by Oakland Council member At-Large Rebecca Kaplan, that would support the California State Legislature enacting legislation that would support affordable housing by requiring that […]
Moms 4 Housing Activist Carroll Fife Now Oakland District 3 Councilmember-Elect In The Pandemic ONN – Moms 4 Housing Activist Carroll Fife Now Oakland District 3 Councilmember-Elect In The Pandemic – vlog by Zennie62 YouTube Moms 4 Housing Activist Carroll Fife Now Oakland District 3 Councilmember-Elect In The Pandemic Note from Zennie62Media’s Zennie62 YouTube and […]
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris – Biden / Harris – Win!! I spent Wednesday morning, November 4th, at the ampitheater in the plaza in front of Oakland’s City Hall, masked and distanced but heartened by the crowd who sang and prayed together for a Just America and demanded that we count every vote! We ate […]
Oakland, FAD – Good Friday to you. Again, and thanks to the County of Alameda’s Registrar of Voters, Zennie62Media has a table for each rank-choice-voting election in the races for Oakland City Council. As the Alameda Registrar of Voters sends new updates, those will be posted below the first set for each race. Here they […]
Here Are The Full Oakland California, Berkeley, California Election Results For The 2020 Election, Including Measures, And Results For Piedmont And San Leandro Who will win the 2020 Election for Oakland City Council? Will Lynette Gibson-McElhaney retain her District Three Seat, or will Moms 4 Housing leader Carroll Fife emerge with 51 percent of the […]
Oakland Town Hall on Violence Prevention From YouTube Channel: October 29, 2020 at 10:40PM ONN – Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Holds Town Hall on Violence Prevention, Same Tired Views Last night, Mayor Schaaf held a virtual town hall meeting to discuss the rise in gun violence in Oakland since the Coronavirus hit the industrialized World. […]
Oakland Approaches Alameda County About Housing Homeless At Fairgrounds In Pleasanton From YouTube Channel: October 28, 2020 at 10:43PM ONN – A new proposal to move homeless people from the City of Oakland to the Alameda County Fairgrounds in Pleasanton is drawing criticism from county leaders as well as Tri-Valley residents. Katie Nielsen reports. (10/28/20) […]
Housing Symposium Segment 5: Lessons from being Homeless From YouTube Channel: October 27, 2020 at 06:22PM ONN – State of Black Education Oakland (SoBEO) co-founders Jumoke Hinton and Dr. Charles Cole, III talk about lessons learned from growing up homeless. Part of SoBEO’s Housing for All campaign: https://ift.tt/2TyPG4c Note from Zennie62Media and Oakland News Now: […]
Oakland – The City of Oakland sent a press release to provide more background on the funds Eliane Brown secured for her housing project. Oakland reports that as part of its Project Homekey Initiative, the State of California has awarded the City of Oakland nearly $17.5 million of Project Homekey funding for two innovative housing […]
Congratulations to Elaine Brown, the famed and legendary Oakland Black Panther, who is now CEO of the nonprofit Oakland & the World Enterprises, successfully gained $21 Million in Homekey program funds. Brown and her team will use the money to purchase the former Traveler’s Hotel at 392 11th Street, at Franklin, in downtown Oakland, from […]
City of Oakland to enact new EMP Policy by Derrick Soo ONN – City of Oakland to enact new EMP Policy by Derrick Soo City of Oakland City Council APPROVED a new Encampment Management Policy that will change current policy. Oakland Administrators did this before, FORCING people to live in close proximity to dangerous Street […]
That Berkeley City Councilmember Ben Bartlett should face challengers in the 2020 Election is wild to me. When one considers the many accomplishments Bartlett has done for Berkeley, and what work he’s started and that’s left to be done, and then look at his opponents and what they offer, that Bartlett’s re-election should be a […]
COUNCILMEMBER LOREN TAYLOR PRESENTS COMMUNITY DISCUSSION IN EAST OAKLAND WITH RESIDENTS AND MAYOR SCHAAF REGARDING COVID-19 CRISIS AND OTHER CONCERNS Since the Mayor and Councilmember Loren Taylor are asking you to miss important football programs on a Sunday, make it worth your while and ask them about the many economic development programs available, and ask […]
Oakland District Two Councilmember Nikki Bas’ Digitized Newsletter Last week, I was so moved to see #MomsHouse on Magnolia Street finally become community-owned as permanently affordable, transitional housing for unsheltered mothers. Congratulations to Dominique Walker, Tolani King, Misty Cross, Sameerah Karim and Carroll Fife for leading this movement to end corporate speculation and house more […]
Port of Oakland 1927 to 2020 From YouTube Channel: October 14, 2020 at 05:14PM ONN – Port of Oakland’s powerful legacy began more than 165 years ago. The Port’s past encompassed the Civil War, the Industrial Revolution, two World Wars, and America’s coming of age as a global power. This two-minute video begins in 1927 […]
Rep Barbara Lee Issues Statement On Nov 2020 Endorsements Counters Oakland Mayor Schaaf Voting Guide ONN – Rep Barbara Lee Issues Statement On Nov 2020 Endorsements Counters Oakland Mayor Schaaf Voting Guide I received an email that contained a statement from U.S. Congresswoman Barbara Lee, and here’s the text, verbatim: Statement regarding Congresswoman Barbara Lee’s […]
Oakland – The City of Oakland received $36.9 million in State of California CARES Act funding. Of that amount, the Oakland CARES Act Home-Based Business Grant Program will distribute $500,000 in grants of $2,000 to $4,000 to home-based, for-profit businesses in Oakland. Working Solutions, a Bay Area nonprofit, is administering the application and grant-making process. […]
LIBBY’S ELECTION GUIDE Dear Oaklanders, Earlier this week, I ended my 2020 State of the City address by recognizing that this November’s election is so consequential it could chart a new path for our state and our nation. I meant it. I hope you’re as fired up as I am about this Presidential race, and […]
Ben Bartlett Berkeley Councilmember On Domestic Violence Awareness Month From YouTube Channel: October 10, 2020 at 03:39AM ONN – Ben Bartlett Berkeley Councilmember On Domestic Violence Awareness Month During Domestic Violence Month 2020, Berkeley Councilmember Ben Barlett (who introduced the Berkeley City Council’s George Floyd Community Safety Act) took time to express his support for […]
The Pandemic has broken the very fabric of our economy and in Oakland and San Francisco its impact is acutely felt in Chinatown. The need to close to follow shelter-in-place guidelines created to slow the spread of the coronavirus ignited a giant negative economic impact. That caused Jocelyn Tsaih to start a fund-raiser called “Save […]
Oakland News: A letter was passed to me moments ago that outlines the interest of the African American Sports & Entertainment Group in purchasing the Oakland Coliseum site for $92 million. The group consists of Ray Bobbitt, who spearheaded the African American Oakland NFL Expansion effort, which is part of this group’s focus, famed sports […]
This Oakland Public Ethics Commission Complaint comes under the subhead-line of ‘bone-headed reports by fake news folks with racist agendas” and refers to an Oakland Public Ethics Commission Complaint that was filed against a firm called Lane Partners, represented by Andrew Haydel. The matter was before the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, and in it’s agenda […]
City of Oakland and Housing Consortium of the East Bay doing a C-Y-A by Derrick Soo ONN – City of Oakland and Housing Consortium of the East Bay doing a C-Y-A by Derrick Soo Back in April of this year, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced a NEW Housing Program dubbed “Operation HomeBase at 633 Hegenberger Rd. […]
OAKLAND, CA – Yesterday, October 5th, at 10:30AM Oakland City Councilmember at-large Rebecca Kaplan, held a press conference together with a coalition of leaders, to denounce the lies of billionaires who are trying to buy our elections – both in the City of Oakland, and throughout California. Large corporations, including Lyft and Uber, are spending […]
Since taking over for the three-times-elected Oakland City Attorney John Russo, Barbara Parker has consistently worked to protect tenants in Oakland at a time when the City’s very cultural fabric has been damaged by gentrification. One search for “Barbara Parker” and “tenants” in my email feed revealed 50 results. Time after time, news releases of […]
Oakland City Councilmember Lynette Gibson McElhaney has served the residents of perhaps the most complicated Oakland City Council District in our city very well. Understand that while District Three is commonly thought of as being only West Oakland, in reality it’s also Downtown Oakland, Uptown Oakland, and Adams Point / Lake Merritt, where I live. […]
Sustainable, Healthy Use of Lake Merritt: Pilot Program Beginning this Weekend The issues at Oakland’s Lake Merritt are complex, with groups having different needs and perspectives, all of which are important and that we are working to honor — families and elders facing challenging issues living at the Lake, entrepreneurs / vendors of color seeking […]
Oakland – Mayor Libby Schaaf and affordable housing partners will open a new apartment community on the Emeryville border that serves mainly working families, seniors, veterans, people with special needs and the formerly homeless. Estrella Vista illustrates an innovative partnership between public and private organizations (including a dozen financial supporters), and the cities of Oakland […]
Oakland Heat Related DEATH At Operation HomeBase Homeless Trailer Park by Derrick Soo ONN – Oakland Heat Related DEATH At Operation HomeBase Homeless Trailer Park by Derrick Soo Oakland Heat Related DEATH At Operation HomeBase Homeless Trailer Park by Derrick Soo When Operation HomeBase opened, City was made aware that the Electrical grid to power […]
Oakland’s Future: Solving Homelessness, Housing for All! From YouTube Channel: September 25, 2020 at 01:00PM ONN – Listen and engage with homelessness & housing experts to create comprehensive solutions for Oakland’s housing crisis. Create a dialogue with the community to ensure all people of Oakland are housed. Join Tri Ngo, Candidate for Oakland District 1 […]
