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Vacant Oakland property where moms were evicted to be turned into transitional housing for homeless

Moms 4 Housing activist Misty Cross stands for a portrait in front of the fenced-off vacant home that she and other homeless or insecurely housed mothers occupied during a months-long protest which ended in a court ordered eviction, in Oakland, California on Jan. 28, 2020. (PHILIP PACHECO/AFP via Getty Images)

Homeless moms who were evicted earlier this year from a vacant San Francisco Bay Area house say a land trust has purchased the property and will turn it into transitional housing for homeless people.

Moms 4 Housing announced Friday that the three-bedroom home in West Oakland was purchased by the Oakland Community Land Trust from a real estate investment company.

The house requires extensive renovation and was purchased for $587,500.

The group caused a national sensation when the moms and their children moved into the empty house in November, partly to protest the methods of real estate speculators. They were evicted in January.