Houseless Oakland Residents Create a 2nd Healing Housing Solution to the Emergency of Homelessness in Oakland

Prayer Ceremony wth houseless and formerly houseless Oakland residents to welcome in the first two houseless land stewards to HOMEfulness 2 

What

Prayer Ceremony, Land stewarding ceremony 

When

10:00am Feb 17, 2026 

Where

7600 MacArthur Bl Oakland (Huchiun) 

“The shelter evicted me because i had stayed there longer than 28 days, I have nowhere to go” said Maria, houseless, disabled,indigenous Oakland resident, future land steward of HOMEfulness2

While rain covers the Bay Area, homelessness among families and elders continues to rise. Meanwhile, the  “solution” offered by local, state, and federal governments remains the same: violent erasure of houseless bodies from public space through violent police-led “sweeps”

“Following the decade long struggle by us houseless Oakland residents to build and “mamafest’ HOMEfulness #1 in Deep East Huchiun, now housing 25 houseless youth, adults and elders in rent-free forever, healing housing, We are beginning the prayerful journey to UnSell, care-take and build HOMEfulness2, said tiny gray-garcia, co-founder and visionary of HOMEfulness

In 2020, with donations from  Solidarity Family members, POOR Magazine’s houseless leaders were able to purchase a second small parcel of Mama Earth in Deep East Oakland. Which the City of Oakland had slated for 14 luxury condominiums. 

“I got out with the clothes on my back,” said Monique M., POOR Magazine RoofLESS Radio reporter elder and sweeps survivor. She was describing a violent sweep where she lost her medicine, clothing, and the RV she was sleeping in. Monique—like the majority of houseless residents in San Francisco and Oakland—is a disabled elder who had nowhere to go after surviving that sweep.

“In the time of my ancestors, there was no concept of homelessness,” said Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair of the Ohlone/Lisjan peoples. “Homelessness came with the commodification of Mother Earth.”

Before building Homefulness Huchiun #1 & 2 (Oakland), POOR Magazine sought permission from First Nations people of the land, recognizing that the United States is a settler-colonial project rooted in theft and genocide. Those First Nations relatives now serve on Homefulness elder and advisory councils. That same process of permission, prayer, and relationship is guiding Homefulness in Yelamu.

Because POOR Magazine understands clearly that Mama Earth is not a commodity, they worked with revolutionary legal advocates at the Sustainable Economies Law Center to establish the first-ever Liberation Easement, permanently removing Homefulness#1 land from speculation and profit. HOMEfulness2 will also create a similar easement to permanently take this land off the speculative commodities market. 

“Predatory real estate speculation is why this sacred land was even slated for luxury condominiums in a neighborhood struggling with poverty and the effects of systemlc racism, redlining and intentional blighting,” said tiny  

HOMEfulness is an answer to the immediate emergency of homelessness. But it is also healing medicine—not only for houseless elders, families, and disabled people, but for all of us, housed and unhoused, who are in need of hope, repair, and home.

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