Together, we can
Build Better Neighborhoods,
for the Same Neighbors in
East Oakland California
Our Vision
Our Approach
The Better Neighborhoods Same Neighbors initiative envisions an East Oakland with healthy surroundings, safe and accessible transportation and thriving arts and culture that builds community wealth and ensures housing is a human right for existing East Oakland residents.
Guiding Principles
- Provide economic opportunities through the creation of high-quality jobs and training programs with career pathways for existing residents.
- Avoid economic displacement of low-income disadvantaged community residents and businesses so that they may benefit from these investments in the long run.
- Implement strategies that reduce emissions and increase climate resiliency of vulnerable populations and proposed infrastructure in the BNSN Project Area.
- Report greenhouse gas emissions reductions, co-benefits and outcomes to the California Air Resources Board (CARB)
- Use this investment to leverage private and public funding to sustain community revitalization and equitable development.
Our Impact
The Better Neighborhoods Same Neighbors Initiative is in its second year of implementation with all the projects well-underway.
- Affordable Housing with a ground floor medical clinic
- Providing free fruit trees to residents with training
- Implemented the bike lending progra
- Purchased land for an aquaponics farm
- Stakeholder Committee – Formed 2021
What we do
Community Led Transformation for a robust, climate resilient, equitable, economically flourishing East Oakland
Equitable Housing and Neighborhood Development
Affordable Housing with a 55-units and a ground floor medical clinic
Active Transportation
Bike Share Program trains youth on bike safety and maintenance
Urban Greening & Green Infrastructure
Community Greening will plant 2,000 trees to improve air quality.
Health
Aquaponics Farm and Food Hub provides access to organic healthy foods
Wellbeing
San Leandro Creek Urban Greenway provides connectivity to Shoreline
Our numbers that speak
We have numbers that push us to give in our best and make sure that we break our own records. We are happy to be growing and helping more day by day.
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Units of Affordable Housing
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new residential
and street trees
and street trees
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pounds of organic produce grown
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Residents
reached
reached
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Tons
of CO2e emissions reduced
Our Partners
