Her name wasn't on the ballot, but the 2022 Oakland elections were a disaster for outgoing Mayor Libby Schaaf, the culmination of her eight-year fall from grace. Schaaf presided over a city that has gone through a complete transformation, from a housing boom to exploding homelessness. The housing shortage in California is at the root of the states biggest problems,said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who wants to expand the use of local bonds to promote more building in one of the countrys priciest areas for real estate. The numbers speak for themselves. "My other disappointment is I was able to budget for a police force of nearly 800 officers, but never actually able to reach that staffing number," she said. In addition to that, she's a former member of the Oakland City Council. That is the only pathway to a safe and healthy Oakland where all of us can thrive. She is the mayor of Oakland, California and a former member of the Oakland City Council. For the first time in recent history, Oakland will have a progressive mayor and a progressive-majority City Council the outcome of the November election, which Ross called a repudiation of Schaafs time in office. Libby Schaaf hosts her final news conference as Oakland mayor this month. I was surprised by the lack of willingness or interest to run for office in Oakland, Schaaf said. Dear Abby: I kept this secret for 30 years, and now I'm devastated by the outcome. The housing shortage in California is at the root of the state's biggest problems, said Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who wants to expand the use of local bonds to promote more building in one of . Libby has Stargardt's Mascular Dystrophy disease, which is a deteriorating eye condition that has left the athlete with only slight peripheral vision in her left eye. But the city reached 43% of its very-low-income housing goals, 26% of its low-income housing and 3% of its moderate-income housing goals. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! Moss said shes eager to see how Schaafs legacy will live on from her investments in education for Oakland children to implementing Ceasefire, the citys flagship anti-violence program. A year later, her Drake-backed fried chicken chain opens first Oakland restaurant this week. "You know, I always tell little kids who ask, 'What's it like being the mayor of Oakland?' document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. An estimated 60% or more are Black. This is the gem of Oakland and its completely trashed, the woman said, pointing to the people sleeping on the street. Born and raised in Oakland, Ive always felt such pride in our beautiful, diverse city. [22][23][24] In her announcement,[25] Mayor Schaaf said that the focus will be on, "sustainable strategies that can bring needed change quickly to city streets. [37], Schaaf is Jewish. I dont know whats fair, but my sense is that people are pretty unhappy at the moment with the state of issues in Oakland.. She added that Schaafs administration also changed zoning codes to allow for different types of interim housing. Oakland is grappling with high vacancy rate with nearly one-fifth of governments jobs currently vacant. Schaaf, 54, grew up in Oaklands District 4, where she attended Head-Royce School and Skyline High School. It also lays out her political achievements and failures as the citys 50th mayor for the past eight years. There is no doubt with a million worth fortune; she holds several lavish properties; however, nothing official has been released on this topic. As Schaaf exits on Jan. 2, she leaves behind a crime-ridden city with inadequate police staffing, unfunded retirement liabilities that have grown from about $2.4 billion a decade ago to $3 billion in 2021, and general fund budget shortfalls projected to reach more than $100 million in each of the next two fiscal years. During her administration, Schaaf capitalized on public private partnerships, using fundraising to launch new city programs. As a politician, she needs to maintain a healthy image in the crowd. Is that fair for an overall eight year period? Here Are Four Ways to Spot Greenwashing, The School Board Queen Endorsed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, The School Board Queen: How a Florida Mom Is Shaking Up US Education, The Idea of Parental Rights in Education Goes Back to the 1950s, Ryan Salame Invested Big In ASmall Town, Now Its Tangled Up In FTXs Fallout(Podcast), Fight to Regulate Crypto atCrossroads as Ripple Ruling Looms. Schaaf has also been a strong advocate for locating a ballpark for the A's at Howard Terminal in the Port of Oakland. While market rate housing is constructed for new residents, Oakland has become the third most expensive city in the country for renters, and Black Oaklanders especially face overwhelming displacement pressures. Her mother was a flight attendant. Schaaf has responded to the housing crisis instead by criminalizing unhoused people. Skelton: California has lots of catching up to do on flood management, Opinion: How facial recognition will transform airport security. There have been 13 homicides in Oakland . While controversial, she said she considers that an accomplishment that will one day be realized. Oakland politics do not divide between Democrats and Republicans, or liberals and conservatives. By clicking Accept, you consent to the use of ALL the cookies. A key component of Schaafs strategy to addressing homelessness is the community cabin program, which moves unhoused people into temporary structures. As she comes to the end of her eight-year term, the Oakland. After 22 years with the City of Oakland, I believe more than ever in the power and promise of local government. She worked extensively on Oakland Police Department reform, hiring more civilian staff and pushing through a plan to coordinate the Oakland Police Department with the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, to increase the number of officers patrolling Oakland. All housing helps the homeless crisis and all housing at all income levels has helped slow gentrification and displacement of Oaklanders, Schaaf said in a recent interview with The Chronicle. [8] She then became the program director[9] for the Marcus A. Before starting her political career, Schaaf was an attorney in Oakland at the law firm of Reed Smith LLP. In 2016, Schaaf wrote a voter-approved $600 million bond measure that helped fund street improvements. [2][3] Schaaf won re-election in 2018 with a 27% margin. But, he said, She should get real credit. In January, Oakland will swear in a new mayor, the 51st in its history. That is understandable because that is what developers want to build, but thats not necessarily what Oakland needs.. While Schaaf ushered in a building boom, Lindheim said the housing crisis in Oakland is worse than ever., They grossly underperformed targets of moderate housing and they greatly over-performed targets of market rate housing, Lindheim said. [4][5], Schaaf was born in Oakland, California, on November 12, 1965. While Schaaf ushered in a building boom, Lindheim said the housing crisis in Oakland is worse than ever., They grossly under-performed targets of moderate housing and they greatly over-performed targets of market rate housing, Lindheim said. The Mayors Housing Cabinets 17k/17k Housing Plan helped protect more than 36,000 low income Oakland households from displacement, roughly doubled affordable housing production, and built nearly 20,000 new homes Oaklands biggest building boom in more than a century! People tend to be remembered by the end of their administration and if that Oakland Chamber of Commerce poll is any indication, shes not being well-remembered, said Dan Lindheim, a former city administrator and current professor at UC Berkeleys Goldman School of Public Policy. Bloomberg Daybreak, anchored from New York, Boston, Washington DC and San Francisco provides listeners with everything they need to know. In addition to that, shes a former member of the Oakland City Council. As the town awakened that February morning and more people flocked to the lake for their daily jog or walk, a woman approached Schaaf. var sentence = "Copyright " + "© " + year; long hours and understaffing during tense contract negotiations, Which Bay Area city has best quality of life? The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". And with the passage of Measure U, an $850 million bond measure that Schaaf co-wrote with council President Nikki Fortunato Bas, the city will have more money to put toward creating affordable housing. Weve had to respond to the crisis while building a whole new system that did not exist in City Hall just six years ago.. She repaved 161 miles of the citys crumbling roadways, but residents complain about the amount of trash on city streets in the span of one year, enough garbage landed on city streets to cover the length of 13 football fields. [14], During her tenure on the city council, Schaaf fought to raise the minimum wage,[15] voicing her support for Measure FF,[16][17] also known as Lift Up Oakland, a $12.25 minimum wage ballot initiative which passed in a landslide on November 4, 2014. Still, she acknowledged, its not enough. "And for me it was to fix the damn pot holes!" With so much of Oaklands budget flowing to policing, the city has been hobbled in its response to questions of basic governance and infrastructure. There are cities that have gone through big transformations when it was said it could never be done. As stated, earlier, the numbers speak for themselves. But the city reached 43% of its very-low-income housing goals, 26% of its low-income housing and 3% of its moderate-income housing goals. No one can argue that Schaaf didn't try. Lets learn more about her in todays article. She added that the city has 2,200 affordable homes in the pipeline ready to be built. Schaaf said if she could go back in time to 2015, when she first took office, she would give herself one piece of advice: That homelessness would explode the way that it did and that its not just the countys responsibility, its everyones responsibility, Schaaf said. And while crime in Oakland dipped to some of its lowest levels early in Schaafs tenure, the spike in violent crime is at an all-time high for the first time in nearly a decade. SACRAMENTO - Governor Gavin Newsom and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf issued the following joint statement regarding the Wood Street encampment clearing: "The Court's indication that it will lift the injunction in a week means Caltrans will hopefully be able to proceed to clean up the most dangerous portion of the . By October, that had plummeted to 35%. Moreover, she never capitalized on her early popularity and the bully pulpit of the mayoral post to build an effective fund-raising and grassroots political operation that could be mobilized in support of political allies. Oakland officials are eyeing an expansion to the city's police force to confront the increase in violent crime, which has resulted in more than 115 homicides so far this year.Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf (D) said her office is drafting a proposal to put before the City Council that would increase the number of active police officers and require the city to maintain a larger police force . 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We created Oakland's first Rainy Day Fund, adopted stronger fiscal practices, and grew the economy leading to Oakland's highest credit rating on record. Schaaf's first roles in local government were as legislative aide to Oakland City Council president Ignacio De La Fuente[10] and special assistant to Oakland mayor Jerry Brown. And the pandemic has undercut the growth in business migration to Oakland that was so promising just a few years ago. If Im looking at (her) legacy, I dont think she left her successor in a particularly great spot, Lindheim added. The mayor has only a seldom-used tie-breaking vote. I have seen true heroism in the public servants who Ive had the honor of serving with and learning from -- especially those magical, brilliant professionals who made up the Mayors Office, aka Team MLS. Oakland is a challenging city to govern, said Doug Linney, a political consultant in the East Bay. It's been the honor of a lifetime to serve as Oakland's 50th Mayor during the eventful years of 2015-2022. Is that fair for an overall eight year period? Email: sravani@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @SarRavani. In 2010, Schaaf was elected to represent her home district, District 4, on the Oakland City Council. We did not have a structure in place to deal with it. The first enforcement of this ban was on May 21, during a #SayHerName[29] march, a nationwide coordinated march focused on ending state violence against black women and girls in the US. Weve had to respond to the crisis while building a whole new system that did not exist in City Hall just six years ago.. Schaaf hired Matt Nichols as her Policy Director[22][28] for Transportation and Infrastructure in March 2015. Stop giving all our money to an inefficient police department without making necessary changes. The tiny Bay Area town modern life forgot: Canyon, California, The wondrous story of Tahoe's most eccentric tycoon, The story behind that odd pantry in the wall in old SF homes, Remembering the ugliest thing San Francisco ever built, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Bas said council members regularly hear from residents about their frustration with the lack of services trash, illegal dumping and sanitation and said its been a significant problem. She instituted one of the nations largest guaranteed income programs for low-income residents and launched a widely lauded program called Keep Oakland Housed, which provides rent checks and legal representation for residents at risk of homelessness. She added that Schaafs administration also changed zoning codes to allow for different types of interim housing. In addition toOakland Cares, Schaaf is also active as the Leadership Council atKiva, another non-profit organization. in political science from Rollins College and a J.D. She instituted one of the nations largest guaranteed income programs for low-income residents and launched a widely-lauded program called Keep Oakland Housed, which provides rent checks and legal representation for residents at risk of homelessness. Delving into Schaafs charitable works, let us start with theOakland Cares. Libby Schaaf was born on November 12, 1965, in Oakland, California. But Schaaf, attempting to placate the Left, failed to alert her public to the extent she could and should have. Despite the unrelenting challenges of these times, we made historic accomplishments together. It is a human right.". If we follow her actions, we think we can feel she loves what she does. The outcomes and conditions in the city arent as positive as anybody would like. The chambers poll also found that 97% of respondents said homelessness is either an extreme or very serious problem. Some of the highest vacancy rates are in key city functions about 30% of jobs in the building department and nearly a third of positions in the transportation department are open. The next mayor has their work cut out to get us out of the hole Schaaf has dug us into. But by the time this years election season began, the Libby brand had plummeted so far that her endorsement was considered by some to be a liability. But she didnt galvanize that into a political force.. When the ranked-choice balloting was completed, he lost to Thao, a union-stalwart, by just 677 votes. Schaaf said the biggest challenges from her time in office are the problems she inherited from previous administrations from deteriorating roads with no plans to fix them to a non-existent response to homelessness. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Borenstein: Libby Schaafs devastating political fall from grace, Borenstein: Oakland school trustee seated even though he probably lost election, Borenstein: Seeno v. Seeno becoming building empires War of the Roses. That dissatisfaction also extended to the citys leadership 42% of the polls respondents rated Schaafs performance poorly. From 2010 to 2020, the city population increased by 50,000, but the Black population shrank by 14% and the number of Black youth under 18 decreased by 29%. She equipped an entire generation of children with college savings accounts and universal preschool. McManus: Are Americans ready for a long, frozen conflict in Ukraine? Since Schaaf took office, the number of unhoused Oaklanders has increased by 130%. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Most famously, she sparred with former President Trump after alerting residents that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement could conduct a raid. People tend to be remembered by the end of their administration and if that Oakland Chamber of Commerce poll is any indication, shes not being well remembered, said Dan Lindheim, a former city administrator and current professor at UC Berkeleys Goldman School of Public Policy. The homeless crisis is just a moral outrage," she said. Its the kind of foundational investments that she did in her tenure that will bear fruit for the city of Oakland in the long-term, Moss said. a widely lauded program called Keep Oakland Housed, changed zoning codes to allow for different types. All housing helps the homeless crisis and all housing at all income levels has helped slow gentrification and displacement of Oaklanders, Schaaf said in a recent interview with The Chronicle. Thank you to everyone who helped us leave Oakland a more vibrant, equitable city. Every so often, shed pause and point to the building where her mother lived or the white Victorian home where she got married. Demonstrators met at Frank Ogawa Plaza before sunset for a rally. The outcomes and conditions in the city arent as positive as anybody would like. Still, she acknowledged, its not enough. A city audit found that nearly half of the participants returned to homelessness. articles a month for anyone to read, even non-subscribers! While making the rounds, she shooed a rat away from a blanket covering someone sleeping in the pergola. As Schaaf, a moderate, leaves office, the progressive Sheng Thao is preparing to take over. Loandepot Park Home Plate Box B, Bisquick Fish Batter Without Beer , Palm Cove Hoa Fees , Best Cartridge For 20 Inch Barrel , Llyn Y Fan Fach Fishing , Fallout 4 Companion Console Commands , Homemade Sheep Headgate , Jennifer Dantzscher Pippin Death , Quinn Meinerz Parents , ">. On the flip side, Mayor Schaaf failed to build 5,000 units of affordable housing, as required by the state to meet Oaklands affordable housing requirements, and only issued permits for 22% of the mandated affordable housing. Under her watch, Oakland has repeatedly and violently evicted residents of Oakland encampments closing as many as 12 encampments a month. Further, she is the mayor of Oakland, California, as of 2020. While nearly 20,000 housing units have been built in her time, homelessness also grew by 131% since 2015. After 8 years of Libby Schaaf, is Oakland better or worse? Despite those advances, some city leaders criticized Schaafs administration for failing to deliver basic city services. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The 50th Mayor of Oakland, Libby Schaaf, is a happily married woman. Some leaders have pointed to Schaafs tenuous relationships with city unions, who have protested long hours and understaffing during tense contract negotiations, as a reason for the vacancies. [18], In the race for Oakland mayor, Schaaf was endorsed by Governor of California Jerry Brown[19][20] and US Senator Barbara Boxer. Schaaf also strove to increase government transparency and efficiency, build a safer city, and strengthen Oakland neighborhoods in her time on city council. I believe that the housing crisis in California actually is the biggest threat to our golden-ness as astate,Schaafsaid in an interview with Bloomberg Newsat Oakland City Hall, referring to the state's nickname as the Golden State., Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. To be sure, Schaaf shouldered more blame than she deserved for the citys homelessness, rising gun violence and troubled municipal finances. Chelsea Andrews (left) of EveryOne Home and Schaaf participate in Februarys homeless count around Lake Merritt. Samantha Laurey, Visual Intern / The Chronicle. Even the United Nations condemned Schaafs treatment of the unhoused, saying it constitutes cruel and inhuman treatment and is a violation of multiple human rights, including the rights to life, housing, health and water and sanitation.. S.F.s Golden Gate Park has a new feature after storms: more lakes. 311 is an easy-to-remember telephone number that connects you with highly trained City of Oakland Call Center representatives who are ready to help you with requests for non-emergency City services. Overall, since Mayor Schaaf took office while the total OPD budget grew by over 80% Oaklands Public Works budget has increased by only 38%. We must pay close attention to both the people and policies who get support at the upcoming city elections. By nearly every metric, she has decreased community safety and increased human suffering of those already most. John Ramos accidentally launched a lifelong career in journalism when he began drawing editorial cartoons and writing smart-alecky satire pieces for the Bakersfield High School newspaper. Schaaf said if she could go back in time to 2015, when she first took office, she would give herself one piece of advice: That homelessness would explode the way that it did and that its not just the countys responsibility, its everyones responsibility, Schaaf said. The Just Recovery Budget totals more than $3.85 billion over the next two years, as shown in the table below: "As the City begins to recover from the devastating impact of the COVID pandemic, this Just . It was a time when anyone in Oakland could have foreseen the dangers of the incipient "defund the police" movement. She led Oakland through not easy times.. She repaved 161 miles of the citys crumbling roadways, but residents complain about the amount of trash on city streets in the span of one year, enough garbage landed on city streets to cover the length of 13 football fields. Moss said shes eager to see how Schaafs legacy will live on from her investments in education for Oakland children to implementing Ceasefire, the citys flagship anti-violence program. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. she exclaimed. He pointed out the citys facing the highest levels of crime and violence in a decade, a huge increase in homelessness, a potential financial collapse and the loss of more than a third of Oaklands Black population. The home of Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf was vandalized on Tuesday, just before she voted 'no' on diverting some law enforcement budget On the garage door were phrases including: 'Defund OPD,'. 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