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Tag: Homeless Advocacy Working Group (HAWG)

COVID-19 further burdens Oakland’s Black homeless population’s quest to survive

Candice Elder, founder and executive director of the East Oakland Collective, is a force to reckon with in Oakland when the issue of homelessness is brought up. During this quarantine season, her comrades as well as herself have successfully organized a moratorium on the police sweeping of homeless encampments in Oakland, which was passed unanimously by the City Council.