Feed the Hood
The Feed the Hood program provides community members with large scale opportunities to donate money, goods and time to provide food and necessities to homeless populations across Oakland. EOC hosts the large scale Feed the Hood events bi-monthly. Since September 2017, the Feed the Hood program has galvanized over 1,500 community volunteers, distributed 20,500 lunches, distributed 20,500 hygiene kits, and served over 4,500 unhoused persons across Oakland. The Feed the Hood program has inspired schools throughout the Bay Area to tackle the homelessness crisis as classroom and student projects.
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Housing Oakland’s Unhoused
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Housing Oakland’s Unhoused. In a recent UN Report on Adequate Housing, the Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha decries that "the world has come to accept the unacceptable" with "nearly a quarter of the world's urban population living in informal settlements or encampments, most in developing countries but increasingly also in the most affluent. Living conditions are shocking and intolerable." The UN Report calls out only two US cities for human rights violations--Oakland and San Francisco, cities of great wealth and also escalating inequalities.
Led by The Village, The East Oakland Collective, and the Dellums Institute for Social Justice/Just Cities, the Housing and Dignity Project worked for almost a year to develop a community-based plan to house all of Oakland's unhoused residents: Housing Oakland's Unhoused. The plan is based upon listening sessions with unhoused residents, builds upon a human-rights best practice example implemented by The Village, and policy analysis conducted by UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy's Rawan Elhalaby and Dr. Dan Lindheim. See here for Rawan's Advanced Policy Analysis. |
Impact
Over the course of 2018, The East Oakland Collective has:
- worked to ensure the equity of resources (food, hygiene supplies and City/County services) to homeless populations in East Oakland
- worked with the City of Oakland to identify and install the first sanitation units in Deep East Oakland encampments and continues to push for sanitation units at all encampments
- co-hosted the United Nations to visit encampments and document human rights abuses
- continued to fight for the end of criminalizing the unhoused
- assisted the unhoused with support, supplies and advocacy when faced with forced encampment removals
- built the leadership of the unhoused to advocate and organize on behalf of their rights
- explored opening alternative housing model communities on underutilized private and vacant public lands in East Oakland
In the News
The East Oakland Collective’s Feed the Hood has been named as the #6 Bay Area resolution making a difference! In 2019, we encourage everyone to get involved with orgs providing provisions and resources to our unhoused brothers and sisters in Oakland. [Bold Italic, 12/27/18]
Lead By Example: Women of Color led curbside community delays OPD eviction. [Medium, 11/10/18]
Curbside Community Led By Unhoused Women of Color Refuses to Move, Despite Oakland’s Mayor Threats to Evict. [11/9/18]
EOC members Synitta and Nick talk on KPFA’s Full Circle about the reclaimed public land in Deep East Oakland, home of the new Housing and Dignity Village, a women of color led curbside community and resource center for the unhoused and housed. Listen - https://kpfaapprent.wordpress.com/
Report: Oakland Can House 2,000 Homeless People in 6 Months “If Political Will Exists” [Oakland Post, 11/2/18]
Led by The Village, The East Oakland Collective, and the Dellums Institute for Social Justice/Just Cities, the Housing and Dignity Project worked for almost a year to develop a community-based plan to house all of Oakland's unhoused residents: Housing Oakland's Unhoused. The plan is based upon listening sessions with unhoused residents, builds upon a human-rights best practice example implemented by The Village, and policy analysis conducted by UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy's Rawan Elhalaby and Dr. Dan Lindheim. See here for Rawan's Advanced Policy Analysis.
UN report singles out homeless conditions in Oakland, San Francisco as 'cruel and inhumane.' [KTVU, 10/30/18]
Abandoned or lost? Oaklanders living in cars have homes towed away. [Oakland North, 10/26/18]
Oakland activists protest ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment of homeless after scathing UN report [Mercury News, 10/23/18]
Bay Area Curbside Communities Respond to UN Special Report On Homelessness Naming Oakland, San Francisco As Human Rights Violators. [Press Release, 10/20/18]
"Oakland Wants to Tax Vacant Properties to Help Ease Homelessness." [KQED, 9/1/18]
"Four Bay Area homeless outreach groups that are changing lives." [SF Chronicle, 6/28/18]
"Candice Elder, Founder and Executive Director of The East Oakland Collective and Maowunyo de Asis aka 'Needa B,' Founder of The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople talk about the homelessness crisis in Oakland and solutions with Dave 'Davey D' Cook." Hard Knock Radio - 94.1 KPFA. 2018 June 21.
"In the Field with The East Oakland Collective, a Grassroots Group Aiding the Homeless." KQED Arts 2018 April 5.
“Woman overcomes homelessness thanks to help of local organization” Fox News 51. 2018 March 14.
“Extraordinary Women Making History: Candice Elder, the Community Leader Focusing on the Global Issue of Homelessness in Her Corner of the World.” The Extraordinary Negroes. 2018 March 7.
[The East Oakland Collective/The Village] “United Nations Expert Describes Oakland and California's Homeless Crisis as 'Cruel'.” East Bay Express. 2018 January 21.
[The East Oakland Collective/The Village] "Volunteers distribute respiratory masks to the homeless in Oakland." Oakland North. 2017 October 17.
Lead By Example: Women of Color led curbside community delays OPD eviction. [Medium, 11/10/18]
Curbside Community Led By Unhoused Women of Color Refuses to Move, Despite Oakland’s Mayor Threats to Evict. [11/9/18]
EOC members Synitta and Nick talk on KPFA’s Full Circle about the reclaimed public land in Deep East Oakland, home of the new Housing and Dignity Village, a women of color led curbside community and resource center for the unhoused and housed. Listen - https://kpfaapprent.wordpress.com/
Report: Oakland Can House 2,000 Homeless People in 6 Months “If Political Will Exists” [Oakland Post, 11/2/18]
Led by The Village, The East Oakland Collective, and the Dellums Institute for Social Justice/Just Cities, the Housing and Dignity Project worked for almost a year to develop a community-based plan to house all of Oakland's unhoused residents: Housing Oakland's Unhoused. The plan is based upon listening sessions with unhoused residents, builds upon a human-rights best practice example implemented by The Village, and policy analysis conducted by UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy's Rawan Elhalaby and Dr. Dan Lindheim. See here for Rawan's Advanced Policy Analysis.
UN report singles out homeless conditions in Oakland, San Francisco as 'cruel and inhumane.' [KTVU, 10/30/18]
Abandoned or lost? Oaklanders living in cars have homes towed away. [Oakland North, 10/26/18]
Oakland activists protest ‘cruel and inhuman’ treatment of homeless after scathing UN report [Mercury News, 10/23/18]
Bay Area Curbside Communities Respond to UN Special Report On Homelessness Naming Oakland, San Francisco As Human Rights Violators. [Press Release, 10/20/18]
"Oakland Wants to Tax Vacant Properties to Help Ease Homelessness." [KQED, 9/1/18]
"Four Bay Area homeless outreach groups that are changing lives." [SF Chronicle, 6/28/18]
"Candice Elder, Founder and Executive Director of The East Oakland Collective and Maowunyo de Asis aka 'Needa B,' Founder of The Village in Oakland #feedthepeople talk about the homelessness crisis in Oakland and solutions with Dave 'Davey D' Cook." Hard Knock Radio - 94.1 KPFA. 2018 June 21.
"In the Field with The East Oakland Collective, a Grassroots Group Aiding the Homeless." KQED Arts 2018 April 5.
“Woman overcomes homelessness thanks to help of local organization” Fox News 51. 2018 March 14.
“Extraordinary Women Making History: Candice Elder, the Community Leader Focusing on the Global Issue of Homelessness in Her Corner of the World.” The Extraordinary Negroes. 2018 March 7.
[The East Oakland Collective/The Village] “United Nations Expert Describes Oakland and California's Homeless Crisis as 'Cruel'.” East Bay Express. 2018 January 21.
[The East Oakland Collective/The Village] "Volunteers distribute respiratory masks to the homeless in Oakland." Oakland North. 2017 October 17.
EOC is a member of:
The Housing and Dignity Project
The Housing and Dignity Project is a collaboration between The Village, The East Oakland Collective and Dellums Institute for Social Justice. We organize housed and unhoused residents in Oakland to come together for the goal of implementing immediate emergency and long term permanent solutions to the housing and homeless crisis in Oakland. We understand that the agenda of gentrification has wrongfully used Oakland’s public resources to create the housing and homeless state of emergency and massive human rights violations. This agenda needs to end and public resources such as land, funds and labor must be used to house Oakland’s displaced Black and Brown poor and working class communities.
Homeless Advocacy Working Group (HAWG)
HAWG is a collection of housed and unhoused folks in Oakland that push for grassroots change for more services and homes to our unhoused neighbors. We also help with crisis intervention, delivering supplies, and moving people when the city of Oakland evicts people from places without offering them any alternatives to go. HAWG meets every 2nd and 4th Monday, 4-6 PM, Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 4.
The Housing and Dignity Project is a collaboration between The Village, The East Oakland Collective and Dellums Institute for Social Justice. We organize housed and unhoused residents in Oakland to come together for the goal of implementing immediate emergency and long term permanent solutions to the housing and homeless crisis in Oakland. We understand that the agenda of gentrification has wrongfully used Oakland’s public resources to create the housing and homeless state of emergency and massive human rights violations. This agenda needs to end and public resources such as land, funds and labor must be used to house Oakland’s displaced Black and Brown poor and working class communities.
Homeless Advocacy Working Group (HAWG)
HAWG is a collection of housed and unhoused folks in Oakland that push for grassroots change for more services and homes to our unhoused neighbors. We also help with crisis intervention, delivering supplies, and moving people when the city of Oakland evicts people from places without offering them any alternatives to go. HAWG meets every 2nd and 4th Monday, 4-6 PM, Oakland City Hall, Hearing Room 4.
