Oakland, Calif., Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Tuesday that the city is launching an isolation trailer program to house 130 homeless and medically vulnerable people in East Oakland during the new coronavirus pandemic and beyond.
Speaking at a news conference at the site at a parking lot at 633 Hegenberger Road, Schaaf said “Operation HomeBase” will use 67 trailers donated by the state to bring people into preemptive isolation and give them a “safe respite” so they avoid contracting the coronavirus.
Schaaf said the program will provide three meals a day to the people who live there and run water and sewer connections to each trailer for maximum safety and dignity.
This story by Jeff Shuttleworth originally ran in SFBayCa.com.
She said the site is a landmark because:
“This is the first time the city has run an RV park.”
