Oakland accepted a $500,000 grant to help it provide high-speed internet access to underserved residential areas, city officials say.
The #Oakland Undivided campaign brought the internet to low-income households with school children and quickly closed the gap in access. But, some still may have only hotspots and households without children may not have access at all.
East Bay neighborhoods that lack broadband internet access are correlated with neighborhoods that were redlined starting in the 1930s, according to a report by the Greenlining Institute. Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
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