As residential units rise on the waterfront at Brooklyn Basin after years of construction, the fact that 15 percent of these units will be characterized as affordable is a hopeful sign for Oakland, given the city’s housing and homelessness crisis.

Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Adrianne Todman toured some of the completed units at Brooklyn Basin on Tuesday and spoke with Oakland officials, including Mayor Libby Schaaf, about Oakland’s housing supply, homelessness challenges and community development goals.

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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.