Editing Oakland, California (section)

===21st century===
[[File:Oakland Skyline Telephoto.jpg|thumb|300px|Port of Oakland and downtown, with the Oakland and Berkeley Hills in the background]]
After his 1999 inauguration, Oakland Mayor [[Jerry Brown]] continued his predecessor [[Elihu Harris|Elihu Harris']] public policy of supporting downtown housing development in the area defined as the Central Business District in Oakland's 1998 General Plan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Gammon |first=Robert |title=Inflating the Numbers, The Brown administration came very close on the 10K Plan. So why the grade inflation? |newspaper=[[East Bay Express]] |date=January 3, 2007 |url=http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/inflating_the_numbers/Content?oid=323334 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081230101059/http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/inflating_the_numbers/Content?oid=323334 |archive-date=December 30, 2008 }}</ref> Brown's plan and other redevelopment projects were controversial due to potential rent increases and [[gentrification]], which would displace lower-income residents from downtown Oakland into outlying neighborhoods and cities.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Salazar |first=Alex |title=Designing a Socially Just Downtown |journal=National Housing Institute |issue=145 |date=Spring 2006 |url=http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/145/designingdowntown.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061212172017/http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/145/designingdowntown.html |archive-date=December 12, 2006 }}</ref>

Due to [[Celeste Guap|allegations of misconduct by the Oakland Police Department]], the City of Oakland has paid claims for a total of {{USD}}57&nbsp;million during the 2001–2011 timeframe to plaintiffs claiming police abuse; this is the largest sum paid by any city in California.<ref>KTVU – [http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/investigation-reveals-east-bay-city-paying-out-ext/nFdWy/ Investigation reveals East Bay city paying out extraordinary police abuse settlements] November 14, 2011 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802014527/http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/investigation-reveals-east-bay-city-paying-out-ext/nFdWy/ |date=August 2, 2014 }}</ref> On October 10, 2011, protesters and civic activists began "[[Occupy Oakland]]" demonstrations at [[Frank Ogawa]] Plaza in [[Downtown Oakland]].<ref name="businessweek">[http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q4CNR81.htm "Wall Street protesters: We're in for the long haul"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202190410/http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9Q4CNR81.htm |date=February 2, 2016 }}, ''Bloomberg Businessweek''. Accessed: October 3, 2011.</ref><ref name="lessighp">{{cite news|last=Lessig|first=Lawrence|title=#OccupyWallSt, Then #OccupyKSt, Then #OccupyMainSt|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-lessig/occupywallst-then-occupyk_b_995547.html|access-date=October 6, 2011|work=Huffington Post |date=October 5, 2011|author-link=Lawrence Lessig}}</ref>

African-Americans dropped to 28% of Oakland's population in 2010, from nearly half in 1980, due to fast-rising rents and an extreme housing crisis in the region.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/01/from-black-panthers-to-bbq-becky-the-displacement-of-black-oakland | title='We're being pushed out': The displacement of black Oakland| newspaper=The Guardian| date=June 2018| last1=Levin| first1=Sam}}</ref>

The city inspected warehouses and live/work spaces after [[Ghost Ship warehouse fire|a fire broke out in the Ghost Ship warehouse]], killing 36 people in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 16, 2019|title=Update: Fire Chief Defends Response To Deadly Ghost Ship Fire|url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea/article/Update-Fire-Chief-Defends-Response-To-Deadly-13849101.php|access-date=January 9, 2021|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}</ref>

Oakland is the second U.S. city, after [[Denver]], to decriminalize [[psilocybin mushrooms]]. In June 2019, the City Council passed the resolution in a unanimous vote ending the investigation and imposition of criminal penalties for use and possession of [[Entheogen|natural entheogens]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-oakland-magic-mushroom-legal-20190605-story.html|title=Oakland becomes 2nd U.S. city to decriminalize magic mushrooms|last=Shalby|first=Colleen|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=June 5, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-oakland-decriminalize-mushrooms-psychedelic-plants-20190622-story.html|title=How a trip on magic mushrooms helped decriminalize psychedelic plants in a California city|last=Branson-Potts|first=Hailey|date=June 22, 2019|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=June 23, 2019}}</ref>

In November 2019, two homeless mothers and their children moved into a vacant three-bedroom house in West Oakland. The group, calling themselves [[Moms 4 Housing]], said their goal was to protest what they said was a large number of vacant houses in Oakland owned by redevelopment companies while the city experienced a housing crisis.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/15/us/oakland-homeless-eviction.html|title=Homeless Mothers Are Removed From an Oakland House|last1=Cowan|first1=Jill|last2=Dougherty|first2=Conor|date=January 15, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 15, 2020}}</ref> Two months later they were evicted from the house by three dozen sheriff's deputies, as hundreds of supporters demonstrated in favor of the women.<ref>{{cite news|date=January 15, 2020|title=Sheriff's deputies with guns drawn evict homeless moms from Oakland home|work=DTVU|url=https://www.ktvu.com/news/sheriffs-deputies-with-guns-drawn-evict-homeless-moms-from-oakland-home|access-date=January 15, 2020}}</ref> The incident received nationwide coverage.<ref name = Alaa>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/us/moms-4-housing-homeless-evicted-oakland-trnd/index.html|title=Homeless mothers with Oakland's 'Moms 4 Housing' have been forcibly evicted from a vacant home they were occupying|last=Elassar|first=Alaa|access-date=January 15, 2020|work=CNN}}</ref> The company that owns the house later said they would sell it to a nonprofit affordable housing group.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Deal-reached-to-sell-homeless-mothers-West-14989721.php#?&te=1&nl=california-today&emc=edit_ca_20200121?campaign_id=49&instance_id=15340&segment_id=20506&user_id=e9848bda5d7546386411f6e2fbdaf95e&regi_id=16153474_ca_20200121|title=Moms 4 Housing: Deal reached to negotiate sale of West Oakland house to nonprofit|last=Ravani|first=Sarah|date=January 20, 2019|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=January 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200121112303/https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Deal-reached-to-sell-homeless-mothers-West-14989721.php#?&te=1&nl=california-today&emc=edit_ca_20200121?campaign_id=49&instance_id=15340&segment_id=20506&user_id=e9848bda5d7546386411f6e2fbdaf95e&regi_id=16153474_ca_20200121|archive-date=January 21, 2020|url-status=dead}}</ref> As of 2019, Oakland's per-capita homeless rate was higher than San Francisco and Berkeley. Between 2014 and 2020, Oakland strengthened its protections for tenants in order to reduce the displacement of its long-time residents. Between January 2020 and March 2022, Oakland suffered a disproportionate death toll from the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]] and [[SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant|Delta]] [[SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant|cron]] hybrid variant within the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 2023, prior to and during the Covid pandemic, Oakland became the first city in American history to lose three professional major league sports teams to other cities within a span of five years.<ref name="OaklandExodus">{{cite news|url=https://ftw.usatoday.com/lists/oakland-pro-sports-team-loss-athletics-las-vegas-fan-reaction|title=Oakland unbelievably lost all three of its pro sports teams in just 5 years|author=Robert Zeglinski|newspaper=USA TODAY SPORTS|date=April 20, 2023|access-date=April 20, 2023}}</ref>