There are four times as many empty homes in Oakland as there are people without homes.
Some of these people are children.

 

No one should be homeless when homes are sitting empty. Housing is a human right. The Moms for Housing are uniting mothers, neighbors and friends to reclaim housing for the Oakland community from the big banks and real estate speculators.  

Moms for Housing is a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers. Before we found each other, we felt alone in this struggle. But there are thousands of others like us here in Oakland and all across the Bay Area. We are coming together with the ultimate goal of reclaiming housing for the community from speculators and profiteers. 

We are mothers, we are workers, we are human beings, and we deserve housing. Our children deserve housing. Housing is a human right.

The system works for banks and corporations
but it doesn't work for us

 

We tried working through the system. We tried following the rules. We work multiple jobs and we still can’t afford a home for our children. This system doesn’t work for people, it only works for banks and corporations. 

 
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Dominique Walker

I am Dominique Walker. Oakland is my home. My family has been in Oakland since migrating from the rural south in the 1950s. I attended Castlemont High School before co-founding and graduating from the School of Social Justice & Community Development. I earned a B.A. in Sociology from Tougaloo College in Mississippi, and was living in Mississippi raising my younger sister and my children up until I moved back to Oakland, April 3rd, 2019. I was planning on going back to school for a Masters in Nursing until I saw how the housing crisis has impacted my community. I became homeless while working full time, like so many other working unhoused folks. Housing is a human right. Being homeless is very violent, and has so many harmful effects both physical and mental. I am taking a stand. Oakland CAN house ALL unhoused folks. There are four times as many empty homes in Oakland as there are homeless people. We have lost our humanity. There are children sleeping on the streets - we should be outraged! I am. I will continue fighting for the unhoused until we all have shelter!

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