Shutting down the lie of rent: 20th houseless resident becomes homeful on the day of global solidarity with Palestine

“Homefulness, a homeless peoples’ solution to homelessness, welcomes in their 20th residents, a houseless family who were residents at Wood Street Commons when they were violently evicted from the vacant West Huchiun (West Oakland) land they were liberating.“We are so excited to be moving into a loving, healing community,” said Dani, a houseless mama of three children moving into Homefulness.Homefulness was launched in Deep East Huchiun (Oakland) in 2011 by houseless, Indigenous, Black, Brown and Disabled elders, youth and families, with permission and spiritual guidance from First Nations Ohlone/Lisjan relatives and ancestors and all nations prayer-bringers from Maya to Africa.“This is a vision created by poor and houseless people for poor and houseless people. It’s a dream and it’s urgent medicine for all of Mama Earth,” Xochitl Maez Valdez, prayer-bringer and teacher in the West African Yoruba tradition.Formerly houseless residents of Homefulness, a homeless people’s solution to homelessness, show off new baby residents DShay and Izel. That big, well-maintained building behind them is Homefulness!“There are more Black people homeless than white people because of classism, racism, redlining and gentrification. A cycle of poverty and drug abuse contributes to the growth of the homeless population, and many homeless feel that they...