Homelessness is rising in Oakland while the city remains far behind on its goal to get to a state-required number of affordable housing units built, according to a recent progress report on the city’s Housing Element, a blueprint for housing its residents.

Thousands more affordable units need to be built and thousands more units for moderate-income folks, too, the report shows, while the city has nearly doubled its target for market-rate units.

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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.