CITY OF OAKLAND
MEMORANDUM
DATE: July 14, 2022TO: City Council and Members of the PublicFROM: Council President Nikki Fortunato BasSUBJECT: Resolution DirectingThe City Administrator To Solicit A Proposal FromSatellite Affordable Housing Associates (SAHA) For A 100% AffordableHousing Project on the 12th Street Remainder Parcel Dear City Council Colleagues and Members of the Public, I respectfully request the Council adopt the following: Resolution Directing The City Administrator To(A) Solicit A Proposal From Satellite Affordable Housing Associates (SAHA) For A 100% AffordableHousing Project On The Second Portion Of The 12th Street Remainder Parcel, Located At East 12thStreet And 2nd Avenue (Property) That Would Qualify As Exempt Surplus Land Under CaliforniaSurplus Land Act Section 54421(f)(1)(A) And (B) Provide A Timeline To Return To Council With AResolution Authorizing The City Administrator To Negotiate And Enter Into An Exclusive NegotiatingAgreement With SAHA For The Property Since entering office and even before as a community member, I have urged the City to use public landfor public good, to provide dignified, deeply affordable housing to address Oakland’s homelessness anddisplacement crisis.
The city-owned 12th Street Remainder Parcel in my district has been an opportunity to make public landfor public good a reality. Passage of this resolution would ensure that both portions of the site will become100% affordable housing in a neighborhood that has experienced intense displacement.
The vast majority of residents in the surrounding neighborhood are people of color (73.8%). 43.9% ofhouseholds make less than $50,000 (income in 2019 inflation adjusted dollars), and median householdincome is $56,129. The majority (79.6%) are renters, with nearly half (49%) rent-burdened.
Moreover, according to theOakland Residential InstabilityDashboard(https://ccrl.shinyapps.io/OaklandResidentialInstabilityDashboard/)built by Stanford University’sChanging Cities Research Lab in partnership with the City of Oakland Housing and CommunityDevelopment Department and the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,from 2000-2018, the E. 12thneighborhood census tract experienced the highest level (“Intense”) of gentrification, defined by anaggregate increase in a set of socioeconomic indicators (i.e. median household income, median rentincrease, median home values, and college-educated residents) greater than 75% of the subregion’saggregate increase.
My office has engaged with the surrounding community of neighbors for several years, including EastlakeUnited for Justice, Dewey Academy and others. Their voices around specific needs for affordable
housing, community benefits and construction mitigations is critical, and I’d like to thank them for theimportant and necessary organizing work they do. Because of their persistent organizing and advocacysince 2015, the 12th Street Remainder Parcel will have 100% affordable housing.
My office is working collaboratively with EBALDC, SAHA,, City Staff, and the community to ensurecoordination as we move forward to realize two affordable housing projects on this parcel.
I’d like to thank the over 25 organizations and hundreds of community members who were a part ofdeveloping the “People’s Proposal” which was the guiding vision for the proposal SAHA submitted in thepast for the entire Parcel and will be revisiting for the Parcel 2 project.
The resolution before you is the result of a lengthy and thorough community engagement process, and Ibelieve this is a win-win deal for Oakland. With this resolution, we will ensure that the E. 12th parcel –both Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 – will be used, in its entirety, for 100% affordable housing.
For questions regarding this memo, please contact Cinthya Muñoz Ramos, Chief of Staff, Office ofCouncil President Nikki Fortunato Bas, at [email protected].
Respectfully Submitted,
______________________________Nikki Fortunato BasCouncil President, District 2