Wood Street in West Oakland is an area that has a number of homeless encampments. The city has started to remove some makeshift homes as part of a larger plan to turn it into an intervention site to help the homeless in the area. It comes one day after a large fire at one encampment.
West Oakland’s Wood Street encampment, which has suffered dozens of fires in the last year, will try a new community cabins model with a $4.7 million grant from the state.