Blacks homeless in disproportionate numbers
In her letter, Lee said Black people represent 10.5 percent of the total population but 54.8 percent of all new entries into homelessness, that Black people return to homelessness at double the rate of the homeless population at large and that 58 percent of the county’s homeless population lives in Oakland.
A coalition of elected officials and community groups is urging the Alameda County Board of Supervisors to spend hundreds of millions in recently freed up
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