Alameda County Health <\/a>report released on Tuesday. It\u2019s the first such decline in more than a decade.<\/p>\nOakland homeless decline<\/p>\n
By the numbers<\/p>\n
The report described overall homelessness in the county decreasing by 13% and unsheltered homelessness dropping 18% compared to 2024. There also was an increase in people in Alameda County being sheltered from 21% in 2019 to 37% in 2026.<\/p>\n
“While we still have too much homeless, I’m glad to see more than 1\/3 were sheltered,” Alameda County Board of Supervisors Lena Tam said. “That’s the highest proportion since 2015, over 10 years ago.”<\/p>\n
The biennial “point-in-time” count was conducted in late January involving over 1,300 volunteers and a 24-hour count to obtain a comprehensive count of homelessness.<\/p>\n
The count includes people who sleep outside, cars, tents and people who live in shelters and transitional housing.<\/p>\n
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee touted the city\u2019s role in trying to reduce homelessness.<\/p>\n
“In just one year: […] 1,600+ affordable housing units under construction,” Lee said on X. “There\u2019s more to do\u2014and I\u2019m ready to keep going.”<\/p>\n
San Leandro opens housing center<\/p>\n
Big picture view<\/p>\n
While this success is being seen in Oakland, other cities in the Bay Area, including San Leandro, are also seeing a decline in unsheltered homelessness.<\/p>\n
The homeless population dropped in San Leandro by 8.3%, the city reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
San Leandro officials pointed out the Lewelling Interim Housing and drop-in center that opened in March 2025 as key reasons for the homelessness decline.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Alameda County Health, San Leandro, Supervisor Lena Tam, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Oakland homelessness numbers have dropped by over 20% over the past two years. It\u2019s the first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,2351,14436,1493,143,145,144,1530],"class_list":["post-325860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-barbara-lee","tag-homeless-population","tag-homelessness","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-san-leandro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325860","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=325860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}