In Alameda, an island located in the San Francisco Bay, there’s an old federal maritime training center built in 1942 that has been sitting vacant for years. For almost as long, residents there have been batting around ideas for what to do with it. In 2019, they finally decided, approving a measure to use the space to house older homeless people.
The nonprofit Alameda Point Collaborative was given the nod to build a medical center on the 100-acre campus where homeless seniors would be able to stay after they’re released from hospitals, rather than ending up back on the streets.
