Officials plan to move homeless residents from a site near Lake Merritt to one by Jack London Square.
Mickey, who preferred not to give her last name, and Will Wilkens, from left, at a homeless encampment along Leet Drive off Hegenberger Road in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, March 28, 2024. Caltrans has agreed to help Oakland clear homeless camps by freeways and the camp will be cleared on April 2.
On Tuesday, the City Council unanimously voted to award a $6.8 million grant to the Housing Consortium of the East Bay to manage a new shelter at the Jack London Inn for the next year, with the possibility of extending the funding. The annual lease will cost about $4.7 million, and shelter operations are expected to cost $2.1 million.
On Tuesday, the City Council also agreed to extend its local homelessness emergency declaration, which it first approved in 2019. The declaration allows the city to request additional state and federal grants and streamline some homelessness efforts, such as building and opening shelters. Alameda County, San Francisco and San Jose have made similar declarations.Google is giving recently homeless Bay Area families $1,000 a month.
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