Oakland

By Demian Bulwa

BART's investigation into a police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed rider was plagued with problems from the start, a Chronicle investigation has found.

Johannes Mehserle is charged with murder.

BART police allowed a train full of witnesses to pull out of the Fruitvale Station in Oakland early New Year's Day after Officer Johannes Mehserle shot Oscar Grant, then made little effort to contact the witnesses as they got off at other stations.

By Jasmenda Brown

It used to take me an hour to get home from school on AC Transit. Now it takes me two hours.

I go to Street Academy in downtown Oakland, which isn't that far from my house in East Oakland. But thanks to the new AC Transit routes, I have to take three buses to get home. The third bus takes forever and is always crowded, so sometimes I can't even get on. That adds another hour to my commute. I refuse to wait, so a lot of times, I'm forced to walk home.

By Lynda Carson

If the board members of the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) have it their way, Oakland may end up losing $10,717,140 per year in federal funding for 1,615 public housing units, which may result in the displacement of 1,554 low-income families from Oakland's public housing. This includes a total of 3,885 family members including children, the aged, disabled and infirm.

With a disastrous housing crisis in full bloom, home foreclosures at an all time high, while the market is saturated with tons of unwanted residential buildings due to a housing market that is as unstable as it has ever been, on September 22 the board members of the Oakland Housing Authority plan to vote on a scheme to dispose of 254 housing sites in Oakland, including 332 buildings mostly filled with very low-income African American public housing tenants.