A group of demonstrators pitched tents and camped Saturday night on the front lawn of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf’s home to protest what organizers called her “empty promises” on helping the city’s homeless.

A group called the Anti Police-Terror Project organized the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend demonstration, calling for Schaaf to redirect half of the Police Department’s funding to pay for permanent funding for the homeless and to “take her own advice” and open her own home to help a homeless person.

“Housing is a human right,” group member Cat Brooks said in a video shot during the protest. “Oakland has 2,700 unhoused people in the street every single evening, and our mayor has done little to nothing to address the solutions.”

Schaaf was out of town during the protests and not inside the house, but issued a statement through spokesman Justin Berton:

“I share the passion of last night’s protesters and I’m proud to live in a city where freedom of speech is fiercely practiced,” she said Sunday. “We are working every day to fight the homelessness crisis that impacts all Oaklanders, and as we work to protect affordable housing in Oakland, we are also producing new units as fast as we can to alleviate the affordability crisis in our region.”

Benny Evangelista is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: bevangelista@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @ChronicleBenny