City of Oakland and Housing Consortium of the East Bay doing a C-Y-A by Derrick Soo
ONN – City of Oakland and Housing Consortium of the East Bay doing a C-Y-A by Derrick Soo
Back in April of this year, Mayor Libby Schaaf announced a NEW Housing Program dubbed “Operation HomeBase at 633 Hegenberger Rd. Touted as a “Respite” from living on East Oakland streets. Qualifications were simple; Age- 65+, Medically “At-Risk” to acquire COVID-19, and live on the streets of East Oakland.
Program in the beginning was successful until “Short-Cuts” within the infrastructure of the site. Rather than setting up proper power grids, City Officials installed a Basic “Lighting” grid with the expectation of EVERY trailer being supplied with Electricity. Fail #1, each Trailer requires 120 VAC with 30 amp surge allowance, multiplied by 67 trailers. Thus REQUIRING 2,100 amps of Current. Typical Electrical panel “Grids” are energized up to 200 amps. Simple math says that a maximum of 6 Trailers are allowed on a single power grid. Thus site should have 11 independent Electrical Grids by NEC (National Electrical Code) requirements. Each trailer connects to its Grid through a separate 30 amp Circuit Breaker next to the trailer electrical tap. These Main Breakers in an offsite Panel on Collins Dr are the “TRIPPED” breakers that turn off individual grids. City taps in as many as 12 trailers on the current Grid.
Housing Consortium of the East Bay isn’t Qualified to oversee Medically sensitive clients. Nobody on staff has any Medical training including Basic CPR. A doctor from ROOTS comes to check on clients on Tuesdays ONLY. HCEB is responsible for the numerous broke bones from falls, medical emergencies and LACK of proper safety equipment that folks need.
Then there’s STAFF that THREATEN harm to many residents on site. Kevin needs to be immediately removed for threatening PHYSICAL injuries to residents regularly.
These are but a few of the issues that I fight to halt, and expose what these Intervention Agencies are really doing to out Homeless folks.
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