"The trip was organized by the Bay Area Council, a business advocacy organization, and Beyond Homelessness, a project of the Oakland-based Independent Institute, a nonprofit think tank. On Monday, the trip began at Haven for Hope, a San Antonio program serving about 1,600 unhoused residents on a 22-acre "campus" that has living spaces with beds and mats, and a wealth of legal, medical, childcare, housing, and substance treatment services on site. About 80 nonprofits are involved in running the campus, according to the trip organizers."
"On Tuesday, the delegation traveled to Austin to Community First! Village, a homelessness program run by a Christian organization. The program is also structured as a "neighborhood" or campus where tiny homes housing about 500 people are spread across a 50-acre property. In the afternoon, the Bay Area group met with housing policy professionals to discuss Austin's recent building boom."
"Lee was originally scheduled to go on the trip. Three other local representatives planned to go on the trip but dropped out. Councilmember Carroll Fife went instead to a conference in Rome on housing, labor, and land issues, her office told us. Council President Kevin Jenkins was also originally on the roster. He said he didn't go because he had to run the City Council meeting on Tuesday. Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas was also slated to attend."
Staff from Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee's office joined a Bay Area delegation organized by the Bay Area Council and Beyond Homelessness to visit homeless shelters in San Antonio and Austin. The delegation toured Haven for Hope, a 22-acre campus serving about 1,600 unhoused residents with beds, mats, and onsite legal, medical, childcare, housing, and substance treatment services run by about 80 nonprofits. In Austin, the group visited Community First! Village, a 50-acre tiny-home neighborhood housing about 500 people, and met housing policy professionals to discuss Austin's building boom. Several elected officials planned to attend but did not.
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