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Crime is dropping, affordable housing is booming, and more good Oakland news: on the podcast

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Oakland’s shocking inexpensive housing growth, declining crime charges, a brand new well being middle for East Oakland youth, large repairs to Oakland’s sidewalks and far more excellent news on this week’s episode.

We spend lots of time on this podcast speaking about Oakland’s challenges: price range crises, crime statistics, political unrest. That is necessary.

However it’s not the complete story of what is occurring on this metropolis.

Once we launched this newsroom, we dedicated to reporting that displays the worth of Oakland. Along with our accountability and watchdog journalism, we share actual information about actual modifications that make Oakland higher.

At the moment’s episode wraps up a few of our newest protection of fine information in Oakland.

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Tales on this episode

Training and youth help

Samuel Merritt College’s $240 million campus will convey 2,000 college students to downtown Oakland

Enrollment in OUSD has elevated for the primary time in eight years. Can it’s sustained?

East Oakland Youth Well being Middle is breaking new floor

Lowering crime and stopping violence

Trump claims crime in Oakland is uncontrolled. However crime is down this yr

A Violence Interruption Academy is coming to Oakland

Higher sidewalks

Nicole Brown-Booker sued Oakland over the damaged sidewalks — and gained

Music communities

RIC Bar in Rockridge hosts personal reveals to treatment musicians’ blues

Jazz quintet finds followers in Oakland retirement communities and performs music ‘from their period’

Inexpensive housing progress and meals help

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Inexpensive housing is taking off in Oakland

Alameda County proclaims one other $1.5 million in emergency meals help

Good restaurant information: Reems returns, Cenaduria Elvira finds a brand new residence, Saba Grocers expands

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Tasneem Raja is editor-in-chief of The Oaklandside. A pioneer in knowledge journalism and native nonprofit information startups, she co-founded The Tyler Loop, a nationally acknowledged group information platform in East Texas. She was a senior editor at NPR’s Code Change and at Mom Jones, the place the staff she led helped construct America’s first-ever database of mass shootings. She started her profession as a reporter at The Chicago Reader and The Philadelphia Weekly, and lives in Oakland together with her husband and daughter.

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