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For the people evicted from Wood Street, Oakland, the largest unhoused encampment in northern California, housing is a human right. Residents had even painted their assertion in bright colors on a placard at the gateway to their dwellings.
The destruction of the camp that was home to over 300 unhoused people in Oakland laid bare the brutality of capitalism.
OAKLAND—Seven years ago, people began setting up what became Oakland's largest and oldest encampment under a freeway maze by a train yard, as the city's housing crisis grew increasingly serious.