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Our Housing research represents many years of expertise and applied research developed in partnership with many Community Based Organizations and local government agencies in Alameda County. You can search our entire collection, browse this section or narrow down your search by viewing content from specific focused research in the areas of:
- General Housing Related Research, Maps and Data
- Affordable Housing
- Foreclosures
- Blight and Vacant Housing
With school closures and consolidation, keeping up with changes to public schools can be tricky. The California Department of Education publishes a list of schools for each county on their FTP site ftp://ftp.cde.ca.gov/demo/schlname/. But, who knows this exists. If it wasn't for a really knowledgeable person, I would have continued scraping district websites.
So, here is a .csv file of the school list from the mentioned FTP site.
Check out the API section of the website to see instructions on how to use our School API that incorporates the data from this file.
Lost Youth: Homicides in California Youth Populations in 2010
The Violence Policy Center has released a new report on the homicides of youth in California with data from 2000-2010. Sadly Alameda County ranked #2 in their 2010 data for ths rates of youth homicide.
In 2010 there were 55 youth aged between 10 and 24 killed in Alameda County, 96% were male and 67% were black.
The report suggests that:
Finally, this year’s county-by-county rankings also point to the continuing urgent need for tailored, localized approaches to reducing youth homicide that integrate prevention and intervention while
engaging local leaders and community stakeholders. At the same time, state and regional policies
should incorporate elements necessary to help ensure effective community practices.
Full report here as a PDF.
Oakland Stressors - 2011 Model Update
The City of Oakland and Urban Strategies Council have developed a new Stressor model for the city using the latest available neighborhood data.
This model provides a rank for every Community Police Beat in Oakland that indicates the relatively high or low levels of 'stress' on a neighborhood. The new model has been adjusted to account for newly available data and also certain data such as poverty that are no longer available from the Census Bureau. The indicators of stress include arrests, crime reports, food stamp recipients, youth incarceration and probation, violent suspensions and chronic absence for OUSD students.
Each Community Police Beat is ranked from 1 through to 57 with 1 indicating the most stressed beat in the city. Beat 34X is the highest ranked beat in 2011.
2011 Top 5 Beats
1 34X
2 30X
3 29X
4 35X
5 06X2010 Oakland Homicide Report
It's almost the end of 2011 and perhaps a strange time to release a report on an issue so immediate and dire as homicides in our city for the past year, but due to data flow and multiple priorities for our team we're only just getting to our update of this valuable report. This report presents the available data on homicides occurring in Oakland in 2010 and is made possible through the detailed data maintained by OPD's Homicide Branch. Urban Strategies Council has been producing these reports for several years and we'll be updating this new site with our historical reports very soon too. A few key highlights are included in this article, download the PDF for the entire report.
City Wide: Homicides Declined on a Yearly Basis from 2006 to 2010, Yet Remained High
In Oakland in 2010, 90 people lost their lives to violence, while in the 5 year period between 2006 and 2010, our community lost 594 people. Despite these staggering statistics, the numbers killed have been declining on a yearly basis during this period.
Count of Homicides Per Year
Wouldn't it be great if you and your neighbors could all chip in $5 to get the city to fill those nagging potholes quicker? Well you can...sort of. Commercial areas in California can form Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) -- recently rechristened "Community Benefits Districts" (CBDs) -- to create a new tax assessment and pay for supplemental services that are traditionally provided by local government. This includes services as innocuous as additional street sweeping and graffitti clean-up, but also more substantial things like private security and public restrooms. CBDs/BIDs are created cooperatively between the local jurisdiction and local property owners, with the weighted majority of those paying the additional tax needed to form the district. All property owners that benefit from the additional services, including businesses, government, nonprofits, and residents, pay the additional assessment.
The attached map (17MB) shows the location of the nine CBDs/BIDs currently in force in Oakland. Combined, these districts budgeted over $3.9 million in improvement to the public realm in 2010. Locally, create of these entities is enabled by the Oakland Business Improvement Management District (Ord. 12190). The creation of a CBD/BID begins when property owners who would pay over 30% of the potential tax author an adequate District Plan and then petition the City Council to create the district. After a public hearing, all property owners that would be subject to the assessment can cast a vote for or against, and if a weighted majority approve, the CBD/BID is created. The associated tax generally lasts for 5-10 years before needing to be renewed, and typically District fnds are managed by a nonprofit established by property owners. A financial report and budget by the fund manager is subject to aproval by the City Council each year.
Oakland Crime Hot Spot Maps for the 3rd Quarter of 2011
These crime report hot spot maps were developed for the Oakland Police Department to aid with intelligence-led policing efforts, to provide resource management support and to aid in targeting crime suppression tactics. These hot spot maps depict crime reports of: Violent Crime, Property Crime and Burglary and are arranged by Command Areas for the 3rd Quarter of 2011. A hot spot is an area with a higher intensity of crime than the surrounding area and is useful as a visual guide to identify areas of high crime incidence.
Click on this first map to help you determine which command area a given part of the city is in.
Bureau of Field Operations 1
Violence
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Oakland Crime Maps for the 3rd Quarter of 2011 by Police Beat
In addition to our yearly hot spot analysis and weekly maps and analyses, we are releasing quarterly crime hot spot maps and beat level summary maps for the Oakland Police Department (OPD). The OPD uses these maps to plan for the seasonal shifts in crime across the city and to evaluate crime prevention and suppression efforts throughout the year. These quarterly maps are released publicly to inform public policy, community awareness and decision making in public agencies.
To see a summary table of all crimes in Oakland compared with the past three years or our innovative Crime Calendars check out this post.
These maps represent crime reports that have been aggregated by police beats for a number of key crime types including robbery, shootings, burglary, homicide and all violent crimes. You can download the complete set of beat level maps here (large 15MB PDF) or click on the maps for a popup slide show in your browser.
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Violent Crime
The FBI have just released their latest Uniform Crime Reports data for City and County crime reports (FBI site), so we have updated our Violent Crimes in Alameda County fact sheet for 2010. This brief report presents an overview of violent crimes in various cities in the county from 2001-2010. This fact sheet is an important tool for stakeholders seeking to implement effective violence prevention programs in their neighborhoods.
Some of the main highlights from the factsheet include:
- Since 2008, Alameda County's violent crime rate declined by just 18%, nearly twice the decline seen in the USA and California overall.
- In 2010 Alameda County's violent crime rate exceeded the statewide rate by 50%.
- In 2010 Oakland ranked as the most violent city in California with a rate of 1,529 violent crimes per 100,000 people. (See the Business Times article here for comparisons)
- Over the ten-year period Oakland contributed on average 77% of the murders in the County.
Violent Crime Rate per 100,000 People from 2001 to 2010 in Alameda County
Oakland Crime Hot Spot Maps for the 2nd Quarter of 2011
These crime report hot spot maps were developed for the Oakland Police Department to aid with intelligence-led policing efforts, to provide resource management support and to aid in targeting crime suppression tactics. These hot spot maps depict crime reports of: Violent Crime, Property Crime and Burglary and are arranged by Command Areas for the 2nd Quarter of 2011. A hot spot is an area with a higher intensity of crime than the surrounding area and is useful as a visual guide to identify areas of high crime incidence.
Click on this first map to help you determine which command area a given part of the city is in.
Command Area 1
Violence
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