Community Corner

Homeless San Leandro Couple Finds Apartment

Bay Area projects to find housing for the homeless are celebrating their success this year.

By Andria Borba and Abigail Sterling, CBS San Francisco:

SAN LEANDRO (KPIX) — Over the past three years the KPIX Project Home team has profiled dozens of homeless Bay Area residents. As 2021 wraps up, we have set out to track some of them down to see how they’re faring.

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There is some good news to report about one homeless couple that we first met back in 2018. Their story may be a sign that billions of federal and state dollars pouring in to help the homeless are starting to make a difference.

“Today we pick our keys up for our house, our apartment!” said Kymberli Wilson. We had never seen her, her husband Lenton and their dog Mokka so happy. “It doesn’t feel like it’s real,” Lenton Wilson added.

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