EDUCATION

“Keeping Oakland’s promise means finding solutions to homelessness, preparing our

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,

I’ll fight to protect what makes Oakland, Oakland.”

Mayor Libby Schaaf

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

scholarships, personal mentors and other persistence supports, while advising

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

early elementary students.

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

American students enrolling in 4 year colleges.

Helped secure Peralta Community Colleges’ offer of first 3 semesters tuition & fee

FREE for new Oakland public school grads.

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

Promise for at least a full generation.

Ensure every student enters Oakland schools feeling their community will provide

them with the expectations, resources, and skills to complete college and succeed

in a career – TRIPLING the OUSD College Graduation Rate!

To learn more or get involved, visit: OaklandPromise.org

 POTHOLES & SAFE STREETS
Fixing Oakland’s raggedy roads has always been one of my top priorities. In 2016, we

passed an unprecedented investment in our infrastructure. Now we must deliver clean,

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

Oakland paving crews.

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

services in hot spots.

Created Oakland’s first Department of Transportation, to bring a more holistic and

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

problems and track how they’re fixed.

Created Oakland’s first intersection and street murals with our innovative community-

based “Paint the Town” initiative.

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-

house crews rather than contractors.

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.

Learn more and get involved: oaklandca.gov/departments/transportation

 NEIGHBORHOOD SAFETY
Oakland has a great story to tell. Our diverse, sanctuary city has gotten significantly

safer, with 5 consecutive years of crime reduction, while dramatically reducing police

use of force and working to end racial profiling.

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%! 

Made significant changes in police risk management practices, training and

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

discretionary stops of African Americans since implementing our Precision Policing

Policy. Recently, we seated Oakland’s first Citizen Police Commission – the

strongest and most independent commission of its kind.

Defended and strengthened our Sanctuary City policies, by ending all assistance to

ICE, funding education and legal assistance to those facing deportation, and

standing up against Trump and Session’s attacks.

We will:
Work toward an additional 10% Reduction in violent crime EVERY year until we get

to zero through a holistic approach -- including prevention, intervention and

addressing root causes.

Continue to strengthen neighborhood policing that prevents crime by building trust,

identifying the specific needs of our neighborhoods, and intervening before crimes

even occur.

Learn more and get involved: oaklandunite.org and oaklandpolice.com

 FIGHTING DISPLACEMENT
Born and raised in Oakland, I’m passionate about keeping Oakland, Oakland –

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

funding compared with previous budgets!

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,

called the 17k/17k Housing Plan.

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

finally stabilize at the beginning of 2018. 

Adopted Oakland’s first Affordable Housing Impact Fees so new market rate housing projects either include

restricted affordable units or pay into Oakland’s affordable housing trust.

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

into protected affordable housing.

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

underserved young entrepreneurs in Oakland each year!

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

the new Oakland budget than in the previous budget.

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.

Learn more and get involved: Oakland-home.squarespace.com and kiva.org/Oakland

 HOMELESSNESS
Every Oaklander deserves safe, affordable housing. Every resident struggling with

disabilities, mental illness, or addiction deserves dignity and care.

    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

and permanent housing. We’ve also brought sanitation support directly to

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

address homelessness, along with $18 million for Alameda County.

Purchased a second Rapid Re-housing Center to use “Housing First” approach to

help 90 more residents at a time move to self-sufficiency.

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

assistance to help Oaklanders keep their housing.

Deploy faster interventions, including more Tuff Shed Cabin Communities and Safe

Parking Sites, to address sanitation needs and move more unsheltered residents to

safety and services while we build more permanent supportive housing.

Test Innovative Construction Methods to create faster and more affordable

temporary shelters, rapid re-housing centers and permanent supportive housing.

Create Regional Partnerships to better leverage and coordinate homelessness

strategies across the Bay Area and along the West Coast.

Demand more resources to address homelessness and housing affordability from

regional, state and federal government.

     Learn more and get involved: OaklandHomelessResponse.com