Renewed Hope Housing Advocates meets monthly at:
Buena Vista United Methodist Church
2311 Buena Vista Ave.
Alameda.
Anyone interested in housing issues is welcome to join us.
For the time and date of our meetings, go to the news and events page or contact:
Laura Thomas
president
522-8901
Lois Pryor
523-5633
Let me know if you want any web design work. Made a page ages ago @ cagreens: http://www.cagreens.org/alameda/city/0103renewed/
I am Renee Rhodes and I am trying to gather information o the renewed hope program . I am in desperate need of housing and I know a family that used to live there I went over there to the property and I saw the units . I am in need f a place and I do have a job. I would be there with my son Richard Silva he is 18 yrs old very great kid that is super responsible has a job and is almost done with high school 2 more months he will graduate so we are homeless now and looking for help. Please if u will contact us at 510 626 5347 and maybe I can chat with you regarding this .
Thanks so much
Renee Rhodes also have a email of rhodes_renee@yahoo.com
I’ve lived in Alameda since 1995. Interesting to read the history of the base. I seem to recall a lawsuit over housing at the base, with an injunction against the city tearing down housing that could be used for the homeless. Federal legislation in the first round of base closures required housing be retained for the homeless as “first use”. If my memory serves, that lawsuit was settled by the city at compromise terms. Then the housing in question, 970 units, was torn down by the city within a week! The plot of land in question, paralleling the Atlantic Avenue entrance to the base, is still vacant, almost twenty years later!
Is my memory correct? If so, that really shows just how disgusting the city of Alameda indeed is. Perhaps you can corroborate this. Is my memory correct?
Steve Tabor
desert609@aol.com
Steve,
Did you receive a reply to your question? If not, you could call Laura Thomas at (510)522-8901 or myself, Bill Smith, at (510) 522-0390. We are, and were at the time, both members of Renewed Hope Housing Advocates. We organized residents to protest the demolition of the housing along Atlantic where Bayport Alameda now stands and later sued the City over the EIR (Environmental Impact Report) supporting the transfer of the base to the City. Many interesting details, easier to discuss with you than write it up. Laura may have a collection of documents describing events at the time.
Thanks for your excellent and probing reporting on housing.
Hello! My name is Angelita, I have a son, Matthew age 16, my daughter, Sophia age 22 and my grandson, Giovanni age 4. We are all separated due to being homeless. I am desperately reaching out for help to find housing. In 2016 my name was up on the waitlist for Everett Commons, Alameda, CA due to miscommunication between City of Alameda and myself, my name was placed back on the waitlist and wasn’t granted the unit at Everette Commons. I have been depressed and at my lowest since this disappointment. In 2018 I was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm after enduring a stroke. Since, I have been desperately searching for housing as my life depends on it. I haven’t had the brain surgery due to being homeless. The Dr.’s want me to have stable housing, with my family to help recover and survive after brain surgery. Recently, I learned the aneurysm is growing and its crucial I get housed. Since my name came up, most recent, within the City of Alameda Housing, I’m hoping to get help, starting here.
I want to get housing, be reunited with my son, daughter and grandson, have the brain surgery and have a home to recover in and survive this with my family.
Please someone help me, I want to live and my children deserve to have a fair chance to help their mother survive this.
With my Doctors in Oakland and Neurology in Berkeley, it is crucial I stay local.
Sincerely,
Angelita