Formerly homeless residents from three big encampments are already moving into a newly converted transitional housing project in West Oakland after the city helped its nonprofit partners buy the building earlier this month.
Oakland City officials announced Monday the nearly 37 million dollar purchase by Memar Properties Inc. and the Housing Consortium of the East Bay was made using funds from state and local sources.
The money included a seven million dollar state Encampment Resolution Funding grant, a 25 million dollar Community Care Expansion award, and a more than four-and-a-half million grant through Oakland’s Rapid Response Homeless Housing program…