12AD.3.11 Demonstrators hold up a banner outside a home in West Oakland last week to show support for four homeless women who have been illegally occupying.

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In November of 2019 a group of Oakland women found themselves homeless and decided to take action and occupy a vacant house in their neighborhood. The home was owned by a corporate real estate company who had until then held the space vacant, demanding an extremely high rent. The women occupied the house on the grounds that the real estate company had driven them from their home using predatory loan practices, and kept the site vacant in the hopes that more affluent homeowners would take their place.