Oakland opened a new cabin community this week to provide temporary shelter for unhoused residents, particularly in the Wood Street area where scores of people were living under freeway overpasses.

The location of the new cabin community is 2601 Wood St., where there will be housing for up to 100 people. The opening comes following a federal judge’s decision last Friday to allow Oakland officials to clear the remaining people from the Wood Street encampment.

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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.