Ayat Jalal, 46, co-founder of First They Came For the Homeless, fries eggs as he makes dinner at a tiny home community called the Right to Exist Curbside Community, located off of E. 12th St. in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, February 4, 2020. Jalal has lived at the site since MLK Day. Currently there are eight tiny homes and one cob house at the location. Oakland and Berkeley city councils have committed to building self governing encampments to address the homeless crisis in their cities. But neither city really has put any full proof plan forward as to what a self governing is and how it should function. Berkeley is one step closer by directing staff to identify locations. Oakland however, is not. Instead, advocates in Oakland have resorted to building tiny home villages throughout the city -- unsanctioned -- as an example of what a self-governing encampment should look like.