Libby Schaaf Profile picture
50th Mayor of the City of Oakland.
May 21, 2019 4 tweets 4 min read
#California is here for you, Tekel Carlisle. Tekel lives at Oakland's Henry Robinson Center, where @GavinNewsom visited today to announce CA's first-ever statewide plan to fight #homelessness with a historic $1 billion. He came to #Oakland to see what's working... "The Henry" is a rapid re-housing center, where homeless residents move in, get access to social services + housing assistance, and have time to build a constistent daily life. As Tekel put it, "It's a place where I can get back my 'get back' focus."...
Jul 14, 2018 9 tweets 2 min read
1. Last night, we hosted an important conversation about race, equity, and the vast disparities suffered by African Americans in Oakland compared to white residents. The conversation was difficult. 2. We met in a library in East Oakland to discuss the city’s first-ever Equity Indicators Report, a 167-page document that measures and quantifies what we know – that inequity exists in many areas of our city: public safety, housing, health, education, etc.