House Info
Coop Name

oakland sol (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)

Address

1236 23rd Avenue, Oakland, CA

Phone number

510.534.9987

Average monthly rent

$470

Parent organization

Independent

Geographical area

East Oakland (San Antonio/Fruitvale)

Contact

oaklandsol@gmail.com

Website

http://oaklandsol.org/wp/

House theme

Gardening, sustainability, food justice

Number of occupants

9

Sex ratio

no rule

Student ratio

no rule

Food service

Individuals cook once every two weeks, and so dinner is generally prepared Sunday night through Thursday night. We formally come together for dinner about 2 times a month, and informally come together often.

Number of weekly communal meals

dinners cooked 5 days a week

Food politics

we buy vegan as a house, but individuals can get meat or dairy on their own. we buy organic, local and bulk as much as possible

Average weekly workshift

1 hour/week, and Second Sunday of every month from 12-4pm

Paid positions available

no

Decision process

consensus

House meeting frequency

twice a month- once for house issues, once for project issues

Pets

one cat, chickens and bees

Rooms available

Yes- single or couples

Expected next opening

Aug 1, 2010 (flexible)

About us

We are a community of nine people living in a mixed-use building on the edge of Fruitvale, and we're looking for a new housemate/project member to join our coop-style living situation and collaborate on the food justice project we run out of our storefront downstairs. We're diverse in our cultural and ethnic backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, and personalities, and welcoming of all applicants, though we strive to have a good balance of queer folks, and people of color--if you're excited about food justice and getting your hands dirty in the garden, all the better! Current housemates are mostly women of color in their mid-20s and early 30s, and are involved in social, environmental, and food justice, and bike-related activism

education (from elementary to special ed to university-level, and as students themselves)

art and community arts/mural projects

gardening and landscaping

urban planning and policy

and day laborer outreach. We do our best to create a culture of mutual respect, of easygoing community and comfortable communication, and a safer space for people of diverse contexts--but we hope new housemates will also be awesome friends, brilliant collaborators, and partners-in-hijinx. We're open to cats and chill dogs that won't dig in the garden.

The home

The room for rent is actually two rooms- a tiny bedroom (~7'x8') with lots of natural light and an east-facing window, and a large adjoining living space (~10'x12') that's semi-public but all yours, with hardwood floors and built-in storage space, in an apartment with two other housemates (we rent three adjoining apartments above our storefront space). Rent is $460 per month (utilities, wi-fi, and netflix average an additional $30/month per person), and move-in deposit (fully refundable) is $525. Our kitchen and common spaces are in the storefront downstairs--where there's also a small library, a cluttery office, a guest loft, washer & dryer, and damp basement storage. Housemates share house bulk food--grains, produce, eggs, and staple items like oil, spices--for an extra $125/month. As a house, our food purchasing and house dinners are mostly vegan, and we make an effort to prioritize supporting local/regional farmers of color

individually, housemates are welcome to purchase and prepare whatever they'd like (we're not dogmatic!) using all-house ingredients, or their own.

The project

The focal point of our project is lush quarter-acre garden in our backyard with vegetable beds, a large chicken coop, four beehives, huge compost bins, a greenhouse that lets cold in at the edges, a little pond (and resident frog!), herb beds, and so many fruit trees! (Plum, peach, two kiwi vines and a passionfruit, lemon and orange trees, grape vines, a spindly avocado, cherries, loquats, a fijoa, and a banana that won't fruit in this climate.) Our gardens, transformed over the past five years from an overgrown, detritus-filled urban lot, are actively used in our educational programs and community workshops on sustainable living practices (e.g. food justice, nutrition, composting, graywater treatment). As a project, we're constantly in slow-flux as incoming housemates bring their own vision to the project and outgoing folks' projects are adapted to fit the goals of the current housemates. We're currently in the middle of a summer internship program aimed at local high school youth interested in gardening and social justice, though we also give educational garden tours to community and school groups, and provide meeting/kitchen space for community groups that use our storefront during the day, several days per week. (In the recent past we've also held fundraiser dance parties, movie nights, kraut and fermentation workshops.)

Location

We're located in the San Antonio neighborhood (a few blocks from the border of Fruitvale), near the freeway, a 10-15 minute walk from Fruitvale BART, and right next to several AC Transit lines (as well as fruit vendors, taco trucks, the Cycles of Change bike shop, East Side Arts Alliance, quite a few large and tiny thrift stores, lots of corner stores, two small farmers' markets, and the amazing Nieves Cinco de Mayo homemade ice cream shop).

What we look for and offer
Because we are both a home and a project, a room in this space asks a greater commitment of time and effort than many other households, but comes with the returns of being part of an incredible space to live, a beautiful organic garden, the chance to create projects galore, and an urban community involved in, inspired by, and learning about environmentally and socially-conscious living. (That said, we're laid-back about house and project responsibilities, and prioritize flexibility over being a stickler for rules--and we don't write passive-aggressive notes!)
Contact or Visit Us

If this sounds like something you'd like to be part of, please get in touch via email--and tell us more rather than less--we'd really like to get a good sense of who you are and what you're excited by and interested in!

Drop by second Sunday of every month from 12pm to 4pm. In the meanwhile, check out our out-of-date website at www.oaklandsol.org for more information about our goals/visions/projects/house (though photos, especially of the garden, don't convey the incredible, lush space we're in!)
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    1. 1309 self.page.send_page()
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    4. 1312
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  2. /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/action/__init__.py in do_show (pagename=u'SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)', request=<MoinMoin.request.request_fcgi.Request object at 0x2fbe450>, content_only=0, count_hit=1, cacheable=1, print_mode=0)

    1. 251 count_hit=count_hit,
    2. 252 print_mode=print_mode,
    3. 253 content_only=content_only,
    4. 254 )
    5. 255
    • content_only = 0

  3. /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/Page.py in send_page (self=<MoinMoin.Page.Page object at 0x2fbe3d0>, **keywords={'content_only': 0, 'count_hit': 1, 'print_mode': 0})

    1. 1199 format_args=pi['formatargs'],
    2. 1200 do_cache=do_cache,
    3. 1201 start_line=pi['lines'])
    4. 1202
    5. 1203 # check for pending footnotes
    • start_line undefined
    • pi = {'acl': <MoinMoin.security.AccessControlList instance at 0x25d2830>, 'format': 'wiki', 'formatargs': '', 'language': 'en', 'lines': 0}

  4. /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/Page.py in send_page_content (self=<MoinMoin.Page.Page object at 0x2fbe3d0>, request=<MoinMoin.request.request_fcgi.Request object at 0x2fbe450>, body=u'{{attachment:yourhouse.jpg}}\n\n{{{#!meta\n#heading... us.\n\n## attach a picture or two here, or above!\n', format='wiki', format_args='', do_cache=1, **kw={'start_line': 0})

    1. 1287 try:
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    3. 1289 self.execute(request, parser, code)
    4. 1290 except Exception, e:
    5. 1291 if not is_cache_exception(e):
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    • self.execute = <bound method Page.execute of <MoinMoin.Page.Page object at 0x2fbe3d0>>
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    • parser = <MoinMoin.parser.text_moin_wiki.Parser instance at 0x25c80e0>
    • code = <code object <module> at 0x323eb70, file "SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)", line 2>

  5. /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/Page.py in execute (self=<MoinMoin.Page.Page object at 0x2fbe3d0>, request=<MoinMoin.request.request_fcgi.Request object at 0x2fbe450>, parser=<MoinMoin.parser.text_moin_wiki.Parser instance at 0x25c80e0>, code=<code object <module> at 0x323eb70, file "SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)", line 2>)

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    5. 1322 raise Exception("CacheNeedsUpdate")
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  6. /var/www/wiki/bin/SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally) in ()

  7. /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/formatter/__init__.py in parser (self=<MoinMoin.formatter.text_html.Formatter instance at 0x25c8440>, parser_name=u'meta', lines=[u'#heading House Info', u'', u'# Hello! Welcome to the coop template.', u'#', u'# Please include all the basic info about your coop', u'# inside these "meta" sections (marked by the {\'s),', u"# but also don't forget to put a nice paragraph or 6", u'# about your house below.', u'#', u"# And upload pictures! Lots of 'em!", u'#', u"# For help on any of this, don't hesitate to ask us -", u'# help@housing.barringtoncollective.org', u'#', u'# Thanks!', u'', u'', u'Coop Name: oakland sol (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)', u'Address: 1236 23rd Avenue, Oakland, CA', u'Phone number: 510.534.9987', ...])

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    3. 348 p.format(self)
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  8. /var/www/wiki/sites/housing/plugin/parser/meta.py in format (self=<housing.p_d5e7c49684ad794b0b8c1808a1899834f3259494.parser.meta.MetaParser instance at 0x25c8f80>, formatter=<MoinMoin.formatter.text_html.Formatter instance at 0x25c8440>)

    1. 169
    2. 170 write(f.table_cell(1, attrs = {'class': self.keyClass}))
    3. 171 write(self.buildLinks(f, key))
    4. 172 write(f.table_cell(0))
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    • f = <MoinMoin.formatter.text_html.Formatter instance at 0x25c8440>
    • key = u'al'

  9. /var/www/wiki/sites/housing/plugin/parser/meta.py in buildLinks (self=<housing.p_d5e7c49684ad794b0b8c1808a1899834f3259494.parser.meta.MetaParser instance at 0x25c8f80>, formatter=<MoinMoin.formatter.text_html.Formatter instance at 0x25c8440>, data=u'al')

    1. 293 # for key/value pair
    2. 294 else:
    3. 295 href = self.buildQueryStr(data)
    4. 296 text = value
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    • data = u'al'

  10. /var/www/wiki/sites/housing/plugin/parser/meta.py in buildQueryStr (self=<housing.p_d5e7c49684ad794b0b8c1808a1899834f3259494.parser.meta.MetaParser instance at 0x25c8f80>, data=u'al')

    1. 325 str = u"%s?action=%s&value=" % (self.request.page.page_name, self.action)
    2. 326 # build query string
    3. 327 str += urllib.quote(q % data)
    4. 328 return str
    5. 329
    • str = u'SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally)?action=metasearch&value='
    • global urllib = <module 'urllib' from '/usr/lib/python2.5/urllib.pyc'>
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    • q = u'meta:"%s=%s" '
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TypeError

not enough arguments for format string

  • args = ('not enough arguments for format string',)
  • message = 'not enough arguments for format string'

System Details

  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:28:56 +0000
  • Platform: Linux imaginary.yerk.org 2.6.35.1-rscloud #4 SMP Wed Aug 11 15:44:25 UTC 2010 x86_64
  • Python: Python 2.5.2 (/usr/bin/python)
  • MoinMoin: Release 1.8.7 (release)