Miley and De La Fuente have failed in their duty to be watchful stewards concerned about the well being of the majority of Oakland residents. A nearly unbelievable 83,210 Oakland residents need housing assistance, according to housing director Roy Schweyer. This amounts to a full-fledged housing emergency in Oakland, and it falls disproportionately on people of color. That's 92 percent people of color evicted for no reason in Oakland. The map graphically showed that nearly all the evictions occurred in the flatland neighborhoods, where low-income people and people of color live, and few in the affluent hills.
Most evictions are in the flatlands and in low-income communities.
But there is a crisis of escalating rents and escalating evictions. When you're thrown out of your home so someone can make more money, we have a moral crisis. On the other side are those who simply want a fairly decent place to live. That's a very serious difference. Alex Salazar summed up the tenants' cause passionately.