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A proposal to build a 150-bed interim housing site in downtown Oakland for medically fragile unhoused people appears to have been derailed. Bay Area nonprofit Cardea Health had been in discussions with the city about using the site of the current Courtyard Marriott on 9th and Broadway for this facility. But community opposition to the project grew over recent days, and on Thursday, Cardea Health confirmed it was no longer in contract for that site. Alexis Chettiar, the CEO and Co-Founder of Cardea Health, told NBC Bay Area that her nonprofit had been working with the city of Oakland for about a year on this proposal to build an interim housing site for unhoused people in downtown Oakland encampments who are too frail to stay in a regular shelter. Chettiar explained that many of these patients are elderly, have chronic illness, or require resources like dialysis or hospice care. Chettiar said the project would have come “at no cost to Oakland” with $20 million in grant funding and $10 million in operational funding through Measure W, a measure approved by Alameda County voters in 2020. But a few weeks ago, Cardea Health contacted Oakland City Council Member Charlene Wang, who represents the Oakland’s Chinatown., and hit a roadblock. “I ran to really protect and revitalize the Chinatown community, and going with this would be the opposite of that, so we told them no, ‘we could not support it’,” Wang said. Community members shared their objections to the proposal at a meeting on Thursday. Neighbors said they feel blindsided and worry about a new facility right next to where hundreds of Chinatown seniors already live. “We have no intention to oppose anything to build a shelter to help the houseless, just in this case, it happens too fast,” said Monica Lau of Family Bridges. Oakland Chinatown Improvement Council President Stewart Chen said the project is “not going to work.” “There are associated issues like safety, support services that have not been addressed,” Chen said. Wang said a council vote on the project has been cancelled and believes the property is backing out of the deal. Cardea Health confirmed to NBC Bay Area it is no longer under contract for the project. Representatives said they hope to find an alternative site in the city’s Hegenberger Corridor, an area that already has many homeless service facilities. “We do need encampment resolution, we do, but we need to, as a team, really look at the sites that are available before us,” Wang said.
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