Affordable-Housing

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Driving to Alameda Point in the East Bay may leave a first timer a little lost. It’s out towards the waterfront, past the Victorian neighborhoods of downtown Alameda. Close to the point, the land becomes vast, open, and quiet. There are WWII-era ships across the Bay, which let visitors know that this place was once something different. It used to be the Alameda Air Station until it was closed down in the mid 90s. That was when the government re-purposed the housing and designated Alameda Point for the displaced and homeless.

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Adopt a City Council Resolution Appropriating $379,000 in Federal
HOME Funds and Authorizing the City Manager to Negotiate and
Execute the Necessary Documents to Complete the Loan to the
Alameda Point Collaborative for Acquisition and Rehabilitation of 240
Corpus Christi , 230 Corpus Christi , 2471 Orion , 2451 Orion , 201
Stardust, 251 Stardust , and 271 Stardust (Property)
Approve ARRAAlameda Reuse and Redevelopment Authority. The City Council acts in this capacity. Financing on the Property in the Amount of $2,279,000

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Welcome to Alameda Point Going Forward, the community's source of information about the City's process for redevelopment of Alameda Point.

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A report from the nonprofit think tank Brookings Institution has labeled the Alameda Point neighborhood as one of the five poorest in the Bay Area. The report studied centralized income levels in places around the United States.

"The research study was started to track the concentration of poverty levels in the country over the last decade," said Elizabeth Kneebone, a senior research associate at Brookings.

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OAKLAND -- The Bay Area has fewer concentrations of extreme poverty than a decade ago, according to a report released Thursday.

That may not console the people living in the Bay Area's five poorest neighborhoods. In five census tracts, four of them in the East Bay, more than 40 percent of residents live below the poverty line, according to the Brookings Institution report.

The neighborhoods are in downtown Berkeley, uptown Oakland, Alameda Point and parts of West Oakland, and San Francisco's Hunters Point.

OVER A DECADE OF FAILURE:
WHY MILITARY BASE REUSE AT THE NAVAL AIR STATION, ALAMEDA (ALAMEDA POINT)
HAS BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL

Nicholas Stephen Kosla
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 1999

THESIS

Submitted in partial satisfaction of
the requirements for the degree of
MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION
at
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO

FALL
2010

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It's been a while since Alameda residents last heard an update about the state of Alameda Point. The Alameda Sun contacted officials with the city, the Alameda Point Collaborative (APC), and the PM Realty Group, which manages leases at the base, to see what's new at the base.

Deputy City Manager Jennifer Ott said that the city "is primarily focusing its efforts" on five major goals.

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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) plans to consolidate those of its operations not on the UC Berkeley campus at a nearby site in the East Bay. This will be one of the biggest development projects in the East Bay–and raises lots of environmental concerns.

LBL is talking about an initial need for 500,000 square feet of space for research and office facilities, with a future potential of another 1.5 million square feet, plus a particle accelerator requiring 3,000 linear feet. LBL is scheduled to decide on a preferred location in late November.

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San Francisco’s Planning Commission on Thursday advanced the massive redevelopment of Treasure Island by a 4-3 vote, approving the $1.5 billion project’s environmental impact report.