Bay EvidenceInvestigative research · Bay Area public systemsAlameda County
6 verified county-specific sources
Includes Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, the Tri-Valley, and other municipalities with substantially different housing markets, shelter infrastructure, and enforcement practices.
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Three counties, finished before expansion
Bay Evidence begins with Alameda, San Francisco, and Contra Costa: a connected regional corridor with distinct homelessness systems, housing markets, public agencies, and accountability records. Broader Bay Area coverage will be added only when the source base is strong enough to support it.
The region is the jurisdiction
Public systems cross water, county lines, funding streams, and agency boundaries.
Bay Evidence uses place as an analytical unit rather than scenery. County evidence rooms preserve local methods and institutions while regional reporting tests how displacement, housing markets, transportation, public money, and service systems interact across jurisdictional lines.
Oakland depth desk
One city, several public systems
Oakland is a depth area inside a regional publication. Service requests, spending, housing, encampment policy, contracts, workforce initiatives, and public records are studied together without treating them as one program.
Contra Costa County
1 verified county-specific sources
A geographically diverse county spanning inner-ring communities, industrial corridors, suburban municipalities, and more affluent jurisdictions.
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30 verified county-specific sources
A city and county with unusually dense administrative, service, shelter, supportive-housing, enforcement, contracting, and public-health systems.
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