{"id":261484,"date":"2026-04-10T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261484\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:16:10","slug":"nonprofit-buys-apartment-building-to-house-oakland-teachers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/261484\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit buys apartment building to house Oakland teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers struggling to live in Oakland can soon apply to live next door to their colleagues in a North Oakland apartment building that is being converted into housing for educators,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/04\/07\/oakland-teachers-affordable-housing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The East Bay Times reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaklandfund.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Oakland Fund for Public Innovation<\/a>, a local nonprofit, bought the 33-unit complex earlier this year for about $12 million, far less than the building\u2019s previous market value.<\/p>\n<p>While the low sales price may reflect trouble in the local economy, the nonprofit\u2019s leaders want to turn it into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/02\/21\/oakland-teachers-authorize-strike-after-latest-contract-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a boon for local public school educators<\/a>, who will be offered first dibs to rent the apartments at affordable rates, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was house-hopping between family homes and friends of family,\u201d said Melanie Turner, a special education teacher at Emerson Elementary School who already lives in the building and had sought the Oakland Fund\u2019s previous financial aid offerings.<\/p>\n<p>On average, Oakland Unified teachers earn among the lowest salaries in Alameda County, according to data compiled by the Oakland Education Association teachers\u2019 union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Teachers struggling to live in Oakland can soon apply to live next door to their colleagues in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-261484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}