Ms. Delbra Taylor is a senior who has been living unhoused on the streets of East Oakland for the past 7 years. Ms. Delbra was a victim of an unlawful eviction in 2014, and has since been living in her car. She suffers from some health conditions that being confined to her car only made worse. To help combat the impacts of the COVID-19  pandemic, Ms. Delbra was placed in temporary shelter in hotels and for the past year, has been living in a trailer in a City of Oakland run program in East Oakland. Unfortunately her time in the shelter program is coming to a close and Ms. Delbra has been scrambling to find deeply affordable housing according to her subsidized income. Ms. Delbra is having an extremely difficult time finding housing—sending in application after application, only to be denied or strung along by property managers and lottery systems. Time is running out before Ms. Delbra is forced to live on the streets again!

*UPDATE* At the midnight hour, congratulations to Ms. Delbra on securing an apartment. She has moved in!! 

Ms. Delbra still needs support for move in costs, furniture, essential household items.

Check out Ms. Delbra featured in SF Chronicle: 

"They grew up in Oakland. They owned homes. How they lost everything explains the city’s spiraling homeless crisis. - Delbra’s story: Aging into homelessness." Nov. 3, 2021. Read the story .

"She lived in her car near a Denny’s in Oakland for six years. Her faith kept her going until she landed housing."  Dec. 12, 2021. Read the story .