Lockwood Gardens, Oakland, California
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Lockwood Gardens, is a housing project located in East Oakland, California, on 65th and International Boulevard. [1] Carolyn Wilson, a former clerk with the Oakland Housing Authority, is serving a jail sentence for moving people to the top of the long public housing waiting list after accepting bribes for Lockwood Gardens. [1] Lockwood is also known as the "6-5 vill" (Village), and is one half of the "Vill." The other half of the "Vill" is the recently torn down 69th San Antonio Villas housing project, where infamous drug kingpin Felix Mitchell is from. Once an extremely unattractive housing project, the Oakland housing authority gave Lockwood Gardens a new paint job, new landscaping, and cleaned the sidewalks around the project. These efforts have done little to thwart the crime that plagues this area. Rappers such as G-Stack, Tuffy, and Yukmouth all claim Lockwood Gardens home.[citation needed] References |


