Moms4Housing

Oakland City Council Member-elect Carroll Fife speaks to Raj Mathai following the election. One of her main priorities when she’s in office is making sure affordable housing is more available.

The activist women known as Moms 4 Housing will be among those recognized as Black History Month honorees when the Oakland City Council meets at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, council President Rebecca Kaplan announced. Other honorees will include North Oakland store Marcus Books, community advocate and Oakland Tenants Union founder James Vann, activist and educator Kin Folkz, accessory dwelling unit advocate…

Alameda County prosecutors on Thursday told attorneys for the Moms 4 Housing group that occupied a vacant West Oakland home for about two months that four people arrested during their eviction last month in West Oakland will not be charged.

As the Moms4Housing celebrate their victory Monday, residents of another Oakland homeless project hope tiny houses built by volunteers over the holiday weekend won’t be knocked down by city bulldozers.

Homeless mothers who were evicted last week from an Oakland, California, house where they were squatting plan to move back after speculators agreed to sell the property to a nonprofit organization, it was announced Monday. Melissa Colorado reports.

As the Moms4Housing celebrate their victory Monday, residents of another Oakland homeless project hope tiny houses built by volunteers over the holiday weekend won’t be knocked down by city bulldozers. Thom Jensen reports.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff outlined the new agreement between the City of Oakland, Wedgewood Properties and Moms4Housing in which the mothers will be able to purchase the home on Magnolia Street. Pete Suratos reports for NBC Bay Area on Monday, January 20, 2020.

Homeless mothers who were evicted last week from an Oakland, California, house where they were squatting plan to move back after speculators agreed to sell the property to a nonprofit organization, it was announced Monday.

Protesters on Monday morning rallied in support of two homeless moms who took over a vacant house in Oakland and against their impending eviction after a judge’s ruling last week. Kris Sanchez reports.

One of the homeless mothers who has been living in a vacant West Oakland house since Nov. 18 scoffed Saturday night at an offer by the house’s owner to pay to move them out and shelter them for the next two months, calling the offer “an insult.”

One of the homeless mothers who has been living in a vacant West Oakland house since Nov. 18 scoffed Saturday night at an offer by the house’s owner to pay to move them out and shelter them for the next two months, calling the offer “an insult.”

The property owner planning to have two homeless mothers evicted next week from a West Oakland home offered on Saturday to pay to shelter them for the next two months.

The property owner planning to have two homeless mothers evicted next week from a West Oakland home offered on Saturday to pay to shelter them for the next two months.

Two homeless moms who took over a house in Oakland lost their legal claim to stay in the home when a judge rule against them Friday. Melissa Colorado reports.

Southern California home-flipping giant Wedgewood Inc. was thrust into the spotlight last month when homeless mothers from Moms4Housing began squatting in a vacant West Oakland home owned by the company and refused to leave. It’s an unusual situation for Wedgewood, which until recently, had received little public attention or scrutiny in Northern California. Attorneys representing Moms4Housing argued in Alameda...

Two homeless mothers who have been occupying a vacant West Oakland home for six weeks won at least a temporary victory on Monday when a judge didn’t rule on the property owner’s request that they be evicted. Instead, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Patrick McKinney said at a hearing that was packed by the mothers’ supporters that he will...

A judge is taking time to consider both sides of the Oakland housing fight between Moms4Housing occupying a home owned by Wedgewood Properties. Bob Redell reports for NBC Bay Area on Monday, December 30, 2019.

A spokesman for the company that owns an Oakland house illegally occupied by a group of women on Sunday flatly rejected calls by two Oakland City Council members for the owners negotiate to sell or give the property to the women. “Wedgewood’s position is clear and has been consistent from the beginning,” said a letter from Sam Singer made...

The working mothers behind a controversial move to occupy an empty house in Oakland are due in court Thursday, where their lawyer plans to argue that they have a right to stay in the house based on state, federal and international law.

A group of formerly homeless moms who took over an empty home in Oakland look forward to a court hearing on Thursday. Sergio Quintana reports.