Just Cause campaigns to increase affordable housing funds
The City of Oakland is currently considering its billion-dollar budget, including significant resources for meeting critical needs in Oakland for working families. Two specific funding sources include a $1.9 million surplus that was unaccounted for in earlier budget proposals, as well as another $25 million in the General Purpose Reserve. Just Cause Oakland is making specific demands of that surplus to go towards fighting gentrification and the loss of African-Americans from the city, in response to the city’s loss of between 13 and 25% of its African-American population since 2000 – largely due to housing issues.To focus on this issue, Just Cause held a rally on the steps of City Hall on June 14th, before presenting their case in front of City Council at the hearing scheduled to debate the upcoming budget. Just Cause has developed a menu of several Emergency Housing Service programs that it wants the city to fund with $5.68 million from the budget. These services would help to keep low-income renters and homeowners from losing their homes and potentially leaving Oakland. For more information about this campaign, contact Magdalene
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