Why has this housing for homeless Oaklanders been sitting empty for months?

By: Marisa Kendall, The Mercury News

From our friends at Poor Magazine

Excerpt:

“We have people on the street in this city, and they still refuse to open four beautiful, multi-family townhouses,” said Gray-Garcia, who goes by “Tiny.” Gray-Garcia used to be homeless herself. She planned to sleep in a tent in Frank Ogawa Plaza until the city grants the occupancy permit, but ended up leaving Tuesday night after the police showed up.

Read full article here.

(Originally published March 2, 2022.)


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    published this page in In the News 2022-03-03 16:45:00 -0800

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