Peter Brooks had been looking for two years for a place to put a state-of-the-art mobile shower unit to work. Ricka Davis-Sheard said the nonprofit she co-founded in 2019 was, meanwhile, looking to help Antioch’s growing population of unhoused people.

The Oasis Project figures to meet both of those needs as the showers, clean clothes and other assistance serves East Contra Costa’s growing homeless population.

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