Moms 4 Housing announced that a deal had been brokered between their group, Wedgewood Properties, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf's office to sell the home at 2928 Magnolia St. to the Oakland Community Land Trust, a nonprofit that buys properties and converts them to affordable housing. (Courtesy photo)

The group Moms 4 Housing announced Monday that a sale is being negotiated of a house in Oakland that they occupied from November until last week when they were evicted.

The home at 2928 Magnolia St. was purchased in July by the Southern California-based firm Wedgewood Properties, but a group of homeless mothers moved into the unoccupied home on Nov. 18, prompting various community rallies about the city’s housing crisis and a series of court hearings that ended with a judge ordering their eviction.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.