(Ray Chavez / Associated Press)AdvertisementWedgewood owns about 50 properties in the city, company spokesman Sam Singer said. The home that will go to Moms 4 Housing is blue and white and sits on Magnolia Street in West Oakland. “We’re ready to buy the Moms house, and we’re ready to continue this movement,” Dominique Walker, one of the founders of Moms 4 Housing, told a happy crowd in front of Oakland City Hall on Monday. The women of Moms 4 Housing were either homeless or on the brink of homelessness. But many investor-owned properties languish, uninhabitated, as gentrification and the housing crisis have become more acute in Oakland, causing widespread homelessness.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 21, 2020 02:48 UTC