Housing, Human Services & Development

Housing & Community Development

Administers the city's affordable-housing programs: funding the production and preservation of affordable housing, residential lending and rehabilitation, federal community-development grants, and the Rent Adjustment Program.

Budget

$ millions. FY2017–18 and FY2018–19 were published only as proposed budgets — the proposed row.

Source: Open Budget Oakland. 10 facts, 2 metrics, 2014–2023. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: Open Budget Oakland is a community re-publication of the city's budget files with no second publisher of the same aggregates. Phase 2's available check is a band comparison against the budget books (budget.book.*) where the years overlap, not an equality.. No independent anchor exists for this series: No second publisher; and no adopted counterpart exists for these two years, so not even an internal proposed-vs-adopted check is possible..

Payroll

The Controller files label this unit “Housing Development” through 2019 and “Housing & Community Development” from 2020 — a rename with no overlapping years (verified against the source files), merged into one series.

Charted separately, in thousands rather than millions: overtime is 0.3–1.4% of total wages in the years shown (the source's total-wages figure includes overtime).

Source: California State Controller. 20 facts, 4 metrics, 2015–2024. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Human Services

Runs the city's social-service programs: Head Start early-childhood education, senior centers and aging/adult services, homelessness services, and grants to community organizations.

Budget

$ millions. FY2013–14 and FY2014–15 list no Human Services department: it was budgeted inside “Community Services,” an umbrella the FY2015–16 file splits into Human Services and Oakland Parks & Recreation — a reorganization, not a rename, so the umbrella is shown as its own row, not merged. FY2018–19 exist only as proposed budgets.

Source: Open Budget Oakland. 10 facts, 3 metrics, 2014–2023. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: Open Budget Oakland is a community re-publication of the city's budget files with no second publisher of the same aggregates. Phase 2's available check is a band comparison against the budget books (budget.book.*) where the years overlap, not an equality.. No independent anchor exists for this series: No second publisher; and no adopted counterpart exists for these two years, so not even an internal proposed-vs-adopted check is possible..

Payroll

Sum of the two reporting units the Controller files carry for this department: “Health and Human Services” and “Aging/Senior Aides.” The latter is the department's senior-services staffing — part-time Senior Aide Program positions and senior-center staff (68–164 employees a year), units of the Human Services Department on its own rosters — reported to the Controller as a separate unit. Per-unit series are in the CSV.

Charted separately, in thousands rather than millions: overtime is 0.0–2.9% of total wages in the years shown (the source's total-wages figure includes overtime).

The overtime series swings by multiples because the base is small and the number of people paid any overtime changes: $43K in 2021 against $449K in 2023, the larger figure being 3.6% of the department's 2023 wages. In the Controller files the count of employees with a non-zero overtime figure under this label runs 52 in 2020, 22 in 2021, 122 in 2022 and 120 in 2023 and 2024, and in every one of those years the overtime is concentrated in Head Start and Early Head Start instructional classifications (Early Head Start Instructor, Head Start Instructor, Early Childhood Center Director, Family Advocate, Family Services Specialist). The source files do not state why the number of staff paid overtime changed.

Source: California State Controller. 40 facts, 4 metrics, 2015–2024. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Planning & Building

Handles land-use planning and zoning, building permits and inspections, and code enforcement, through its Bureau of Planning and Bureau of Building.

Budget

$ millions. FY2018–19 exist only as proposed budgets.

Source: Open Budget Oakland. 10 facts, 2 metrics, 2014–2023. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: Open Budget Oakland is a community re-publication of the city's budget files with no second publisher of the same aggregates. Phase 2's available check is a band comparison against the budget books (budget.book.*) where the years overlap, not an equality.. No independent anchor exists for this series: No second publisher; and no adopted counterpart exists for these two years, so not even an internal proposed-vs-adopted check is possible..

Payroll

The Controller files label this unit “Planning, Building & Preservation” through 2019 and “Planning, Building & Neighborhood Preservation” from 2020 — a rename with no overlapping years (verified against the source files), merged into one series.

Charted separately, in thousands rather than millions: overtime is 2.8–7.8% of total wages in the years shown (the source's total-wages figure includes overtime).

Source: California State Controller. 20 facts, 4 metrics, 2015–2024. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Economic & Workforce Development

Supports business retention and attraction, workforce development, and arts and culture programs; manages city real-estate assets and regulates cannabis businesses, special events, and other permitted activities.

Budget

$ millions. The FY2013–14 and FY2014–15 adopted files list no economic-development department; the department first appears in the FY2015–16 file. FY2018–19 exist only as proposed budgets.

Source: Open Budget Oakland. 8 facts, 2 metrics, 2016–2023. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: Open Budget Oakland is a community re-publication of the city's budget files with no second publisher of the same aggregates. Phase 2's available check is a band comparison against the budget books (budget.book.*) where the years overlap, not an equality.. No independent anchor exists for this series: No second publisher; and no adopted counterpart exists for these two years, so not even an internal proposed-vs-adopted check is possible..

Payroll

The Controller files label this unit “Economic Development” through 2019 and “Economic & Workforce Development” from 2020 — a rename with no overlapping years (verified against the source files), merged into one series.

Charted separately, in thousands rather than millions: overtime is 0.0–1.4% of total wages in the years shown (the source's total-wages figure includes overtime).

Source: California State Controller. 20 facts, 4 metrics, 2015–2024. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Violence Prevention

Created in 2017; funds and coordinates community violence-intervention services and employs staff providing direct intervention, addressing gun and group violence, intimate-partner violence, and commercial sexual exploitation.

Budget

$ millions. The department first appears in the FY2019–20 adopted file.

The adopted figure goes from $1.2M in 2021 to $25.0M in 2022 because the scope of the line changes, not because a like-for-like budget grew. In Open Budget Oakland's files the earlier years are a staffing line — the FY2020–21 file budgets $425,670 of civilian salaries, $369,231 of contract services and $382,594 of benefits, retirement, allowances and internal services. The FY2021–22 file's Violence Prevention line carries $20,699,436 of contract services, 93% of the increase, and the funds behind it move off the Human Services line in the same file: Human Services' Measure Z (fund 2252) budget goes from $10,487,549 to nothing while Violence Prevention's rises to $9,668,375, and Human Services' fund 2152 budget goes from $3,633,616 to nothing while Violence Prevention's appears at $3,959,260. The department's own staffing budget roughly quintuples across the same two files ($425,670 to $2,240,064 of civilian salaries); the rest of the step is the city's violence-prevention contract portfolio being budgeted here instead of under Human Services.

Source: Open Budget Oakland. 4 facts, 1 metric, 2020–2023. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: Open Budget Oakland is a community re-publication of the city's budget files with no second publisher of the same aggregates. Phase 2's available check is a band comparison against the budget books (budget.book.*) where the years overlap, not an equality..

Payroll

The Controller files spell this unit's label differently from year to year (“Department Of Violence Prevention”, “Dept of Violence Prevention”, “Dept. Of Violence Prevention”) — one unit, no year reported under two labels (verified against the source files), merged into one series.

Charted separately, in thousands rather than millions: overtime is 0.000–0.047% of total wages in the years shown (the source's total-wages figure includes overtime).

Source: California State Controller. 16 facts, 4 metrics, 2017–2024. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Animal Services

Runs the municipal open-admission animal shelter and animal-control field services: stray and surrendered-animal intake, adoptions, cruelty and neglect investigations, and injured-wildlife response. Made a standalone department by a 2014 City Council vote; previously a unit of the Police Department.

Budget

$ millions. Open Budget Oakland's files break out an Animal Services department only in the FY2021–22 and FY2022–23 adopted files; earlier files carry no animal-services line — its budget sits inside other departments' totals and cannot be extracted from these files.

Source: Open Budget Oakland. 2 facts, 1 metric, 2022–2023. CSV

No independent anchor exists for this series: Open Budget Oakland is a community re-publication of the city's budget files with no second publisher of the same aggregates. Phase 2's available check is a band comparison against the budget books (budget.book.*) where the years overlap, not an equality..

Payroll

The Controller files carry the shelter under its own “Animal Services” label only in 2024. In the 2021–2023 files the same unit is labeled “Museum” — every position under that label in those years is a shelter position (animal control officers, animal care attendants, veterinary staff, the Director of Animal Services) — so those years are shown here; the Museum label's 2015–16 rows are actual museum staff and are excluded. From 2015 through 2020 shelter staff are reported inside the City Administrator's unit (and in 2015 partly under the Police Services Agency), mixed with that office's other employees, so no earlier department series can be built from this source.

Charted separately, in thousands rather than millions: overtime is 3.9–6.5% of total wages in the years shown (the source's total-wages figure includes overtime).

Source: California State Controller. 12 facts, 4 metrics, 2015–2024. CSV

State Controller payroll figures are calendar-year (January–December) totals. The budget and ACFR figures elsewhere on this page are July–June fiscal years labeled by their end year, so the two are on different bases and the years are not comparable.

Housing and homelessness (open data portal)

Housing production and affordability, and the city's homelessness counts and programme flows.

Housing figures are permits and pipeline, not completions. The point-in-time homeless count is a single night counted biennially and undercounts by design. Encampment operations — the only series here the city still updates — count operations, not people.

Housing

Affordable housing development by year

Source: Affordable housing development by year (data.oaklandca.gov q43i-p854). 8 facts, 2 metrics, 2016–2020. CSV

Affordable housing production pipeline

A pipeline snapshot by permit stage, not a time series.

Source: Affordable housing production pipeline (data.oaklandca.gov 7rwb-vf8t). 4 facts, 4 metrics, 2026. CSV

Total housing production by income level

Column 'extreamly_low' is the city's spelling and is preserved in the metric id so the source column stays greppable.

Source: Total housing production by income level (data.oaklandca.gov hdvf-kqvb). 18 facts, 4 metrics, 2016–2020. CSV

Housing production (market rate vs affordable)

Source: Housing production (market rate vs affordable) (data.oaklandca.gov xpc5-e88m). 10 facts, 2 metrics, 2016–2020. CSV

Low income housing projects

Source: Low income housing projects (data.oaklandca.gov k7yd-w9bi). 5 facts, 5 metrics, 2026. CSV

Residential impact fees

Source: Residential impact fees (data.oaklandca.gov cymv-8udk). 12 facts, 6 metrics, 2016–2019. CSV

Homelessness

Total people experiencing homelessness by year

Biennial HUD point-in-time count. Three counts only (2015/2017/2019) — a count night, not a continuous series.

Source: Total people experiencing homelessness by year (data.oaklandca.gov rcnr-rnbq). 3 facts, 1 metric, 2015–2019. CSV

People experiencing homelessness by race

Two shares per race: of the homeless population and of Oakland's population. No year column; the city published it against the 2019 point-in-time count.

Source: People experiencing homelessness by race (data.oaklandca.gov 5jck-b3yt). 12 facts, 12 metrics, 2026. CSV

People entering homelessness programs

Source: People entering homelessness programs (data.oaklandca.gov fat8-rtuy). 10 facts, 2 metrics, 2016–2020. CSV

People exiting homelessness programs by year

Source: People exiting homelessness programs by year (data.oaklandca.gov mnw9-mw7b). 10 facts, 2 metrics, 2016–2020. CSV

Completed Encampment Management Team operations since 2021

The only live homelessness series on the portal (updated 2025-12-03). intervention is Closure / Cleaning / Outreach; district is D1–D7.

Source: Completed Encampment Management Team operations since 2021 (data.oaklandca.gov 2e3d-5f6k). 24 facts, 14 metrics, 2021–2025. CSV

Program and outcome data

No department on this page publishes a machine-readable program-outcome dataset. 311 homeless-encampment requests (the encampment-management and encampment-cleaning queues) are counted on the Public Works/311 page. Program figures for these departments exist in council-filed documents in this site's corpus — Head Start enrollment reports, HUD Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Reports (CAPERs), Measure Q annual reports, Rent Adjustment Program annual reports, Housing Element annual progress reports, and Department of Violence Prevention outcome attachments. Their figures are not yet extracted into the facts shown here.

Data being pursued