{"id":276460,"date":"2026-04-20T05:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276460\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T05:57:07","slug":"oakland-settles-legal-dispute-with-owner-of-former-homeless-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276460\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland settles legal dispute with owner of former homeless shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Oakland has agreed to give the owner of a property used as a homeless shelter during the COVID-19 shutdown a legal settlement of more than one-and-a-half million dollars.<\/p>\n

The city leased the Lake Merritt Lodge in 2021, which it used as a shelter to house about 100 medically-vulnerable homeless residents. The nonprofit Housing Consortium of the East Bay ran the shelter.<\/p>\n

The Oaklandside reports<\/a> the shelter was closed two years ago amid conditions at the shelter and disagreements between the city, the nonprofit and the property owner, who provided meals and custodial services.<\/p>\n

The website toured the property<\/a> last year and found the former shelter in shambles.<\/p>\n

Last year, the property owner, Vima Harrison 1 LLC, filed a three-million dollar suit against the city. The owner claimed the city had damaged the city and had not paid the final month of the lease.<\/p>\n

The City Council authorized the settlement in a closed session last week, with all but one council member voting in support.<\/p>\n

As part of the settlement, the city did not accept responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The City of Oakland has agreed to give the owner of a property used as a homeless shelter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-276460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460","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=276460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}