[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Affordable housing to be built on former Navy property in Alameda, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hundreds of affordable apartments planned for where Black people were once segregated
The housing would be built on former Navy property in Alameda near the Oakland Estuary

By PETER HEGARTY 
Bay Area News Group (CA)
August 10, 2020 

ALAMEDA - Up to 654 apartments for low-income residents are planned near the Oakland Estuary where there was once segregated housing for Black workers who came to Alameda to work for the U.S. Navy during World War II.

Habitat for Humanity and the city’s Housing Authority are proposing the apartments, which would be built as two projects on 14 acres at Mosley and Singleton avenues and Bette Street.

Most of the site will be taken up with the Housing Authority’s project, which calls for 586 apartments in buildings on four blocks, along with paths and a new street connecting Mosley and Singleton that would be named “Mabuhay,” a Filipino expression commonly used in greetings.

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The authority took ownership of the property from the Navy in May 2019 after expressing interest in the site a decade earlier, said Danielle Thoe. Tho is the senior project manager of the Community Housing Partnership, which is made up of the authority, Building Futures and the Alameda Point Collaborative, organizations that work to get homeless people into permanent housing.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/07/hundreds-of-affordable-apartments-proposed-in-alameda

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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