High-quality, climate-resilient housing does not already exist at the scale we need to permanently house our 5,490 unhoused neighbors in Oakland. The majority of our city's -  and California’s - housing stock was built before 1979 and 42% of all Oakland households live in homes built before World War II. While an old building can contain high-quality, climate-resilient homes, most landlords have neglected to do the renovations, climate retrofitting, and regular upkeep that makes that possible. The few homes that exist that are high-quality and climate-resilient are, for the most part, not affordable for low-income and very low-income people, which means they are deeply inaccessible to unhoused people. When unhoused people are offered housing, it is often poor quality, unhealthy, and climate-risky, making it difficult for them to rest and heal, let alone build economic power and live lives of joy and well-being.