PERMANENT SUPPORTIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS
Mandela Parkway Proposal
Wood Street residents have collaborated with affordable housing architect Mike Pyatok over the last year to envision a community-led solution to homelessness. This site houses teachers, working class families and the unhoused and includes an academy, a jobs program, and wellness center on site.
A complete community with:
3 sites with 405 affordable apartments for teachers, working class families, and the unhoused community
The Academy: learning hub
Healing clinic: medical, dental, mental, spiritual
Fitness center
Site 1: Teacher Housing
96 units
6-story elevator-served building with a 60-car parking garage
3-story walk-up buildings
Study room, music practice, craft rooms
Site 2: The Academy & Family Housing
174 units
5 floors of housing for unhoused or housing-unstable
Half for singles, half for families
Potential programs: GED, nutrition, gardening, financial literacy, home & bike repair, and more.
The space: classrooms, offices, computer lab, tools, workshop and event space.
Site 3: Shelter, clinic, & Housing
135 units
- Studios and 1-bedroom apartments intended for singles and couples
- 40-person overnight shelter
- Fitness center including physical therapy
- Healing clinic (basic medical, dental, mental health)
- Landscaped courtyard with community garden
Representatives of the Wood Street Commons, whose ideas, dreams and compassion toward each other and all of humanity, inspired this proposal. – Michael Pyatok, FAIA
Send an email to Gavin Newsom based on this template to demand public land for public good. We want the state to surplus four Caltrans-owned vacant parcels to Oakland for housing. Below is an outline of the Wood St Commons proposal for affordable housing designed for these lots.