U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge visited Oakland’s Fruitvale Village to see solutions to the nation’s housing crisis. She acknowledged that California has the most pronounced housing problem in the country.

The visit to housing development Casa Arabella on East 12th Street this past Thursday kicked off a day of activities in Oakland for Fudge. She also visited other Oakland housing solutions such as Clifton Hall, where formerly unhoused residents live following the conversion of a college dormitory with state Homekey funds.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.