The federal money will help move people from temporary tiny homes into long-term housing. A recent Bay Area News Group investigation found Oakland’s tiny home programs fail most participants.
Months after an investigation by the Bay Area News Group found Oakland was failing to help most of the city’s tiny home residents get out of homelessness, the city is deploying a $1 million federal grant in an effort to correct the problems.
“I do think it is a resources-based issue,” said LaTonda Simmons, who is temporarily filling in as the city’s homelessness administrator afterafter serving less than a year. “But I do know that the city has taken that seriously in terms of trying to identify additional resources that would aid in the delivery of individuals directly into permanent housing.”
“There’s a lot of possibility there,” Simmons said. “I think the other part has to be making sure that not just in the city of Oakland but as we work with the county that we’re able to identify permanent units that people are able to get into and that are sustainably affordable for them.”
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