Housing and Shelter
Crafting a comprehensive policy for providing our unhoused fellow neighbors in Alamedy County — our community’s most vulnerable residents — with decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings.
- Collaborate with business and community partners to produce more affordable homes and preserve existing affordable units
- Work across the region to address the housing crisis with the Bay Area Black Housing Fund to create a $500m fund to provide down payment assistance and housing preservation and development
- Establish robust protections from unaffordable rent increases and unfair evictions
- Support an improved equity-based implementation policy for how the County’s encampments are supported and managed
- Increasing support for Oakland’s Rental Assistance Program, Emergency Housing Vouchers, Emergency housing with Oakland Housing Authority
- Convert blighted properties into permanently affordable housing
- Creating a rental registry which creates transparency about how many units are owned, how much is charged and how many are vacant