Federal Program Offers Incentives To Oakland Landlords Willing To House Homeless Tenants

By John Ramos, CBS San Francisco:

OAKLAND (KPIX) — The City of Oakland has announced an incentive program to attract property owners to participate in a federally funded effort to house the homeless. But even though the money is there, it still may be a tough sell.

Oakland has 515 federal vouchers to help pay for housing homeless people in the private rental market and the city is offering landlords a $1,000 bonus for each new contract signed.

“Our goal together is to get 200 new landlords that have never taken a Housing Choice voucher in the past to actually sign up and become part of this partnership,” said Mayor Libby Schaaf.

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