It will come too late for as many as 300 people displaced from the massive Wood Street homeless encampment in West Oakland as Caltrans clears the camp.
on the idea. The Army base is not a feasible place to house people — even temporarily — because it’s ground water and soil are contaminated with unsafe levels of toxins including kerosine, arsenic and diesel, he said. Reiskin also took issue with the potential cost of the project, which could range from $18 million per year to run an RV parking site, to $22.5 million per year to run a community of tiny homes for 1,000 people.
Complicating the matter, the city attorney’s office brought up two other issues with using the Army base site as a homeless shelter. To start, City Council does not have the authority to order the city administrator to open the property up immediately to unhoused residents, said Richardson. Furthermore, residential use is prohibited at the site, per an agreement between the city and the federal government, which originally owned the property, he said.
Moving forward likely would require cleaning the toxins from the site and getting waivers from the state that would allow people to live there, city workers said. Dozens of local residents and activists called into Tuesday’s meeting in support of Fife’s resolution, including multiple people living in the Wood Street encampment. A homeless woman described how, amid the dangers of the street, this encampment is where she feels safe, and where she’s found a family. An unhoused Army vet said he’s been kicked out of the area multiple times and told to go “anywhere but here.
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