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EB PREC is officially a Certified B Corporation®! As of June 2022, we have completed our B Corp Certification process and received our official status as a Certified B Corporation cooperative business. What does it mean to be a B Corporation? “B Corps™ are businesses that meet the highest verified

At the end of 2020, the City of Oakland, EB PREC and a host of partners were awarded one of the California Strategic Growth Council's Transformative Climate Communities (TCC) grants.  We are so excited to be part of this team and put our special sauce on the program&

Twice a year we tally up the number of dollars residents would have paid, were they in market rate housing. We recently discovered that since 2019 residents crossed the $100,000 dollar threshold saving a total $105,484.09 dollars. We think this is significant for a few reasons. Dollars

The Loma-Prieta earthquake of 1986 accelerated West Oakland’s fall from the grace. A fall set in motion in 1964 when BART began construction. The naturally-occurring event, combined with those man made, created the perfect conditions for a nationwide trend in urban areas to take hold here in Oakland. The

In the process of researching this project we’ve learned a lot about the Esther, the woman, in addition what we’ve learned about Esther’s the place. Esther Mabry, came to Oakland from Palestine, Texas--a city between Houston and Dallas--in the 1940’s. She was 22 years old. She

We are so pleased to share that we’re currently in contract to purchase Esther’s Orbit Room!!! You may know that we’ve been building toward this project for more than two years. We are now mobilizing to close the gap and finalize the historic purchase of Esther'