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California, Oakland, and BACS – Partner Together Announcing Major Investment in Permanent Housing for Oaklanders

September 22, 2020

During the upheaval of the last 6 months – with the pandemic and fires making the ongoing housing crisis more complex –  BACS has persevered and continues to be ‘on the ground’, doing whatever it takes:

  • All of our residential programs, community intensive programs, and houses have stayed open 24/7;
  • In the first three months of the pandemic, BACS kept 695 families in their housing through Keep Oakland Housed;
  • BACS — operating two sites and serving 600+ people — joined Project Room Key, the state-wide initiative to provide a safe place for unhoused community members to shelter-in-place.

And today, we get to share spectacular news: BACS has been awarded $10 million to buy single-family homes in Oakland, to create permanent housing for community members with complex needs who are experiencing homelessness through Project Home Key!  [Read more…]

Tagged With: announcement, BACS, bay area community services, bay areaproject homekey, california, CARES, gavin newsom, homekey, homeless, homelessness, jamie almanza, libby schaaf, Oakland

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