Unhoused residents wonder if they’ll still get to run their own community, after the city upends plans for a ‘co-governed’ shelter.
An experimental village of tiny homes next to Oakland’s Lake Merritt could have been a Bay Area model, showing how unhoused people can design and run their own communities working with local nonprofits.
in the design and management of a new transitional housing site near Guadalupe River Park. And a new tiny home community at Peralta and 3rd Streets in West Oakland gives residents a say in how the site looks and operates. But true co-governance can be difficult to pull off. In recent weeks, a handful of vocal opponents have started speaking out against the co-governed project at City Council meetings, protesting it at the site, and putting up fliers listing their complaints. Nino Parker, a 68-year-old activist who lives on the streets of Oakland, objects to what he sees as segregation — residents of the co-governed side are mostly White, while residents of the city-run side are predominantly Black.
Last month, Parker and Garrett-Clark got into a confrontation during one of Parker’s protests, which ended with Garrett-Clark pushing Parker away. Shortly after, Garrett-Clark said, the city terminated his contract without telling him why. The city declined to comment on the reason.
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