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children for success, and fixing our streets. It also means keeping residents, artists and
small businesses in Oakland while building affordable housing and making our
neighborhoods clean and safe. As your Mayor, I believe it’s more important than ever
that we not back down from defending our community’s values. As an Oakland native,
Mayor Schaaf was proud to partner with the OUSD, East Bay College Fund and
over 1,200 community partners and champions to spearhead the Oakland
Promise, which is a comprehensive cradle-to-career initiative to help Oakland’s
students get to and through college.
Since launching the Oakland Promise only 2 and a-half years ago, we have:
Sent more than 1,000 public school graduates to college with multi-year
thousands more middle and high school students on college access at 10 new
Future Centers.
Awarded more than 8,000 K2C early scholarships to OUSD kindergartners and
opened more than 500 college savings accounts for medi-Cal eligible babies and
Increased college enrollment rates at Oakland Promise schools, with an 11% point
increase in Latinx students enrolling in college, and a 14% point increase for African
Helped secure Peralta Community Colleges’ offer of first 3 semesters tuition & fee
And we will:
Secure the funding to ensure EVERY baby born into poverty and EVERY Oakland
public school student will receive the cradle-to-career supports of the Oakland
Ensure every student enters Oakland schools feeling their community will provide
them with the expectations, resources, and skills to complete college and succeed
safe streets for every neighborhood, starting with Oakland’s first “Summer of Paving”
to not just fill potholes, but also to replace twice as many local roads with new City of
We have:
Filled a record 20,000 potholes in 2017 and launched Oakland’s first “Summer of
Paving” in 2018 to pave 25 miles of our worst local roads - double our past average!
Added several new illegal dumping crews and environmental enforcement officers to
track down and prosecute dumpers and pick up dumping faster, with proactive
equity-based focus on resident mobility and better utilization of our public rights of
way.
Wrote and passed a local infrastructure bond Measure KK to start addressing our $2.6
billion in deferred maintenance and needed road repairs. Along, with SB1, it provides
funds that can be used to fix the worst local roads in our neighborhoods – not just
major arteries.
Launched a 311 Call Center and Oak311 app to make it easier for Oaklanders to report
Created Oakland’s first intersection and street murals with our innovative community-
And we will:
Triple the speed of street re-paving, filling potholes, replacing cracked streets, and
fixing deteriorating sidewalks – by using our new bond funds and relying more on in-
Improve bicycle and pedestrian safety to ensure our roads work for everyone,
especially our most vulnerable, and make them safer until we eliminate bicycle and
pedestrian fatalities.
Continue testing new services and education efforts until we end illegal dumping.
safer, with 5 consecutive years of crime reduction, while dramatically reducing police
We Have:
Significantly reduced crime, with increased violence intervention resources and
police staffing. Comparing last year with just 5 years ago, homicides are down
42%; shootings down 50%; armed robberies down 55%; and home burglaries down
62%!
policies thanks to our ground-breaking work with Stanford to end police racial
profiling. These changes have produced a 72% drop in police use of force and a
XX% reduction in police misconduct claims over 5 years, as well as a XX% drop in
Defended and strengthened our Sanctuary City policies, by ending all assistance to
ICE, funding education and legal assistance to those facing deportation, and
We will:
Work toward an additional 10% Reduction in violent crime EVERY year until we get
identifying the specific needs of our neighborhoods, and intervening before crimes
even occur.
protecting our long-time residents, artists and homegrown small businesses that make
up our “secret sauce.” With Measures JJ, A1 and KK, along with our Housing Cabinet’s
17k/17k Plan, we will protect tenants and create more affordable housing.
We have:
Prioritized fighting displacement and producing more affordable housing with A1 & KK bonds to invest $280
million to create permanent affordable housing – TWELVE TIMES more investment in affordable housing
Convened Oakland’s first Housing Cabinet of experts & stakeholders who prioritized more than 40 initiatives
that, by 2024, will Protect 17,000 Oaklanders from displacement and Produce 17,000 new housing units,
Strengthened tenant protections for Oakland’s tens of thousands of renters, including rent control, just cause
eviction and relocation benefits by passing new policies and ballot measures like JJ. We also expanded
tenant services, like legal assistance to fight illegal rent increases or evictions.
Facilitated a record-breaking rate of housing construction – six-times the previous average – causing rents to
Adopted Oakland’s first Affordable Housing Impact Fees so new market rate housing projects either include
Expanded the supply of Section 8 Rental Units by offering new incentives to rental property owners, as well
as prioritized funding to protect existing families at risk of displacement by converting unprotected buildings
Launched Kiva Oakland, which has provided millions in zero-interest loans to more than 600 small Oakland-
grown businesses - 90% owned by people of color & 70% owned by women, as well as helped launch the
Oakland Emerging 100, a collaborative initiative to prepare, launch and grow 100 new businesses founded by
Created Oakland’s first Policy Director for Art Spaces to assist artists and cultural organizations in keeping
safe, affordable spaces in Oakland, as well as helped the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) launch
the “Keeping Space - Oakland” grants program which is helping small arts organizations maintain affordable
space in Oakland.
And we will:
Invest in affordable housing by providing TWELVE TIMES the money for affordable and homeless housing in
Assist 500 small businesses and nonprofit cultural organizations to stay and grow in Oakland.
Introduce State legislation to make it easier to convert market-rate housing into protected affordable
housing.
Complete a record number of new housing units to alleviate demand and stabilize or bring down Oakland
rents.
We have:
Opened innovative Tuff Shed Cabin Communities that have allowed encampments
to move off of sidewalks and into a dignified and supportive community with safety,
secured storage, sanitation and services that are moving residents to employment
encampments and unsheltered residents, along with expanded mobile outreach and
medical care.
Won an unprecedented $8.6 million direct allocation from the State Budget to
Helped create and lead new advocacy groups to end homelessness and housing
insecurity in the Bay Area Region with CASA: The Committee to House the Bay Area;
State with the California Big 11; and Nation with Mayors & CEOs for US Housing
Investment.
And we will:
Launch an Eviction Prevention Fund to give millions in emergency financial and legal
Deploy faster interventions, including more Tuff Shed Cabin Communities and Safe
Parking Sites, to address sanitation needs and move more unsheltered residents to
strategies across the Bay Area and along the West Coast.