The Alameda Point Collaborative, a non-profit in Alameda California, has converted former Navy housing into 200 affordable units for homeless families.
Doug Biggs is the executive director of A.P.C. “We’re an entire community out here. It’s not just like other housing programs. Other homeless programs are a facility, but we’re a real neighborhood,” said Biggs.
A.P.C. serves about 500 homeless people, more than half of which are children. The adults – often single mothers – work in job training programs for at least six months. After they graduate, A.P.C. helps them find new jobs outside the community.
Biggs says it’s true that many residents of Alameda Point live in poverty. “Poverty kind of denotes a long number of social conditions – not just a lack of income, but lack of services, lack of community, lack of safety, lack of amenities, lack of joy in many cases. I don’t think that’s really the case out here.” He also says they’re lucky because they’re in a place where they can live well on very little cash.
(Source: kalw.org)
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