Marielle Amrhein and her husband, Karim Bishay, moved with their children Malak and Noor from Oakland to Lagunitas two years ago. Soon, they will celebrate the launch of their home’s new garden feature a cob pizza oven and benches with a neighborhood pizza party. “Everyone loves pizza and so do we,” she says. […]
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The kitchen and community clinic at Cob on Wood, an eco-village built inside a massive homeless encampment in Oakland, where residents may soon be evicted. (Courtesy of Cob on Wood)
Wood Street is where the Bay Area sends its unwanted. In a series of lots in an industrial corner of West Oakland, arsonists torch abandoned cars. Contractors dump old building materials and trash without permits near the train tracks. It’s where the city’s police, in the process of forcibly clearing out the more than 140 encampments of unhoused people that dot the region, tell people to go to be left alone, under the shadow of a raised highway bridge on Interstate 880.
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Cob on Wood is a small village center along Wood Street in West Oakland, beneath Interstate 880
It has transformed a patch of one of the city s biggest homeless encampments into a community area
Between 150 and 300 homeless people access the services and facilities including small huts known as cobins for homeless people to safely shelter
There s also a communal kitchen, hot shower and compostable toilet, and a free store full of donated clothing
The center has a free health clinic with on-site practitioners, vegetable gardens and a cob pizza oven
It also provides opportunities such as construction training, cooking classes and careers development