“They said we have to leave… today… I’ve been here for four years and I’ve never received help or resources or even a referral of someone to talk to about housing.” Dennis, a houseless resident, was talking about the eviction of the 3rd and Peralta tiny home community in Oakland.
From the beginning of RoofLESS radio reporter Dennis’s placement into the Housing Consortium of the East Bay tiny home community, Dennis had an understanding that he would receive some kind of help to find permanent housing. Four years later, he is being evicted back to the streets.
Some Peralta residents got matched with housing. Many, like Dennis did not, partly because like Dennis noted, “When we don’t have access to email, like most of us out here, we can’t even receive the information when it is sent to us. This is just one example of the failure of service provision that is not poverty-scholarship informed.
The stated reasons for this closure was because HCEB lost its funding from the city, which allegedly said the nonprofit wasn’t doing the job it promised to do…Which even if this well-funded non-profiteer wasn’t doing its job, is that really the solution, City of Oakland, to kick houseless people back out to the street.?…