Untimely Futures

November 24, 2021

The cruise ship, "The Ark" is photographed. There are a population of tents surrounding the area where it is docked, and on the sundeck of the ship. Wires with pennants are strung from the top of the ship and reach down into the lot.In this new article, Brandi T. Summers, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, examines Oakland's unhousing crisis and racial disproportionalities in the homeless population: African Americans comprise 70% of the homeless population in Oakland, despite making up only 20% of the overall population. Summers addresses the failures of short-term solutions that have been proposed and discusses the history of West Oakland that continued the trend of dispossession Black people see now.