Oakland's Planning Commission will decide today whether to allow the project to move forward.

A fire burned a city-sanctioned homeless encampment under a highway overpass Monday night.

Since the fire, city officials erected a locked gate around the site, restricting access for gardeners and volunteers.

Officials are weighing a new program that would assist renters living in potentially toxic environments.

In response to the growing homeless population, Oakland may provide services to more camps and purchase a new shelter.

Tenants are suing the owner and master tenants of a transitional housing facility in West Oakland that had many fire code violations.

Ongoing defacement was a "daily threat" that cost the company thousands of dollars in repairs and worker time, the owner said.

The funds will help tenants who were forced out of the transitional housing facility find new homes.

"If this site were in Emeryville, if this site were in San Francisco, would GE take the same approach?" asked a local preservationist.

According to the lease, the transitional housing provider was responsible for most building maintenance.

Owner Keith Kim said he's "heartbroken" over the fire that killed four tenants in West Oakland on March 27.

The site is contaminated with banned chemicals, but preservationists say the buildings still have value.

A building where four people died on March 27 was cited several times by officials in the weeks before the blaze.