Ms. Price has lived in Oakland just about all her life. She recalls how proud her parents were the day they bought their first home in Sobrante Park, Deep East Oakland in 1959 when she was just 3 years old. Throughout her life, she learned the importance of a home and the stability it could offer. In 2013, Ms. Price and her two daughters became homeless when her mother passed away and she lost her rights to the family home they lived in. They remained homeless on and off again, till securing more permanent housing in 2018.  

“I testified in city council because not having a home is traumatic and trauma can paralyze a person. People don’t know how to move forward, and they need someone to help them along. It is so very important to offer them the resources to get them inside, out of the elements and out of danger.”

In 2022, Ms. Price reached out to the East Bay Community Law Center’s Housing Program for advocacy in securing reasonable accommodation requests and ADA compliance. After meeting with her Housing attorneys, Ms. Price was invited to testify to the city council to extend the Oakland Eviction Moratorium. She heard landlords speak against the Eviction Moratorium and thought back to the many people she had spoken to while homeless and decided she would be their voice. She shared that in her years of homelessness, she spoke to professionals that had lost their housing so quickly, that everyone in the room could lose their housing. Ms. Price believes that housing is what keeps a person a human and when that’s missing the person starts breaking down, and she wants to be a voice for that humanity.