City of Oakland Shuts Down "The Village" Homeless Camp | KQED News
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- Just a day after the city’s annual homeless count, Oakland police stepped in and took apart a homeless encampment that had been built by local volunteers. Tiny houses had been constructed from plywood to offer shelter to about 16 people. Those who helped construct it considered it a sort of housing workaround, since there isn’t enough alternative housing in the city for all the homeless in need.
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I am a business owner in Oakland. These people in this clip are extraordinary. There is an enormous amount of money coming to Oakland from our city and outside of it to help the homeless situation. It is not being used For the homeless. I don’t know where it’s going, but it’s not going where we wanted it to go. Who is stealing the money.
Super sad to see not just CA, but the USA dealing with this problem... :(
Im a trucker and I’ve seen homeless towns all over the nation. :(
I gave up and left the Bay 12 years ago. Best decision I have made in my life.
best choice of all time ^_-
Glad I saw it when it was still looking good. Now I don't ever want to be near that place.
Where did you take your Bay Area wealth and move to?
I left in '85. thank God!
hope u moved to some hot humid right wing gunnut shithole
Noboby in politics.have your best interest at heart.it's all about the money.and themselves.screw everyboby else
jim dandy That grammar is atrocious! It was painful to read.
Amen
Bay Area streets are not campgrounds, give them camping permits in Parks closest to wealthy neighborhoods instead!
And how many parks with camping sites do you think there are, as a person looking for camping to pay for in campgrounds you generally need to register ahead of time to get a spot, or do you think you should just put thousands in a local park
Make Permits be good for Nancy's neighborhood.
Why closest to wealthy neighborhoods? They all pay their property taxes and don't deserve this kind of shit camps near them. Government needs to designate an area far away from the main city for homeless people to build a place to live.
@@komaru20 so stop electing the same people
“We’re not asking the city for resources to build this...”
Except land, the most valuable thing in the world today.
And........?
@Voices Lost and Found how many have you taken into your home ? Those who live in glass houses should not throw rocks
There’s a lot of undeveloped land in the Bay Area, counties such as Marin has exempted themselves from having enough affordable housing. Oakland and SF should pay poorer cities such as Vallejo to build rehabilitation encampments. A lot of the former military bases are still undeveloped.
The problem isn't the cost of housing. The problem is drug abuse and mental illness. To solve a problem, you have to find the root cause, not just treat the symptoms.
a regular Jerry Brown Progressive utopia. tax, spend, misappropriate.
I spent years on the street, and I can honestly say that 90% of the people are there because of substance abuse. and they will always ruin any help they are given. Stop making it easy to be a failure.
this is sooooooooooooooooooooooo messed up :(
Like re real Dictators. The City wants you to pay taxes for them to do nothing for you.
Very incomplete story. These people were probably given several legal notices to move out and to not build but they just ignored them. We can't have slums popping up on public property.
It's in every city...more and more people have no resources..the very fact that you cannot build your own home says it all...its about control and money as always...
I was homeless in .ca for years I said screw this socialist state moved to Arizona bought 1/2 acer for 1800 bucks at 200 a month and will start building my own house like that once its paid off because where I'm at they don't have strict building codes I only have 6 more payments and that little peace of land will be mine and I only have to pay 25 bucks a year for property tax
How's that for fuk the system
Were in Arizona
I hope more ppl follow suit.
Addicts who aren't being honest about all the subsidies they are already getting (SSI, panhandling). They want to live somewhere that's convenient for them, with no rules, do your drugs, sleep, sleep, eat when you feel like it.
I bet everyone there would have access to a residential treatment program that they would adamantly reject. I have represented people like this is my profession, so I know what I am talking about.
I totally agree....
I'd live on the beach in a tent and fish all day or find a good spot on the river. Those two options to me would be better than living around crazy people.
You the crazy one
Mad Max encampments coming to a city near you.
Yea, vote for DemonRats and that's assured!
I'm...... conservative and I'm NOT WEALTHY. I don't have the answer to this. One FACT...., if you start throwing money at the problem, YOU'LL NEVER HAVE ENOUGH.
One day, one of those homeless people is going to figure out..commit a crime and go to jail. You'll have a roof over your head, three meals, medical, and free education. All on the taxpayers dime.
Veterans should get a pass, wounded Veterans should have free housing, children should get free food he shelter ALL OTHER ABLE BODIES PEOPLE NEED TO WORK TO DO SOMETHING
U can see y homelessness is rising. Technology, gentrification,cost of living, urban renewal, unemploynent, high taxes,and not enough affordable places to live.
I had to leave Oakland last year. First San Francisco rents went up and people moved to Oakland, Then Oakla d became overcrowded, then Hayward, all the way down to San Jose. People can't afford housing here.I think a universal minimum income would not improve the judgment of the mentally and drug addicted.
ya cant just build a house anywhere!!!! property tax,
Unfortunately, drugs and alcohol have caused people to live like this since the beginning of our country.
Fuck you and you should have said "since the beginnings of humanity" you fucking moronic imbecile.
No, some ppl are not able to afford to live . The cost of living is too much
The land isn't owned by the homeless, same as if the homeless decided to build on your front lawn. They got into their situation and now have to figure out how to get out. I'm talking from experience being I was homeless for 3 years in San Jose and going by the law, got a job, went into a homeless non-profit shelter and got free, eventually left the USA and have a great life now in Thailand!
The problem here is not housing it’s substance abuse all encampments do is enable habits that get them living the way they do in the first place. There’s a labor shortage in the fields of California they can go work if not go treat themselves but not at all give “housing”
Just say no to drugs. Clean yourself up. Take some pride. You are not a victim. You're lazy!
I agree....
Oh fuck off you cant even afford a room for rent with 2 minimum wage jobs wtf are they supposed to do
I guess he could do some construction work .. I think alit of homeless ppl just want a free ride
@u2good2b4gotn there are literally thousands of programs and millions of dollars for ppl who are homeless to get off the streets. The reason so many refuse is because of addiction. Something that liberal cities have endorsed with stations set up for ppl to shoot up drugs. How can you say that you want to help ppl transition from homelessness to productivity if you are enabling their habit??? Do you not see the assinine nature of it all??!
If these 'activists' want to help the homeless, let them live with you.
Kudos to the police and the City of Oakland. Time to stop giving in to moochers. Make them get jobs and stop bothering people. Tear down every homeless encampment. Run them out and keep running them out everywhere they go until they get the picture. No more free rides.
But you don't own the land to build.
Has anyone noticed that where there are liberals there's a lot of homeless people I thought they were for the poor people
Well, what do you want us to do? What the government wants, the government gets.
nope. all republicans in my area of the country and a great big homeless problem. nice try though. I don't blame politicians so much - everyone is to blame for this.
its because they keep coming from red states!~!!
I don't feel sorry for these losers!!! They make up this fake story of their life wanting people to feel sorry for them!!! It's their fault that they don't want to make their life's successful and they choose drugs, drinking, be lazy not looking for a job!!! They are brainwashed in their own world thinking jobs and money is supposed to come to them!!! Let these bums suffer!!! They are a waste of life and they are useless to this world!!! This would be the perfect reason for FEMA camps!!!
So... In big cities with big volunteer programs trying to do something positive but getting twisted????
I miss my native city of Oakland but with no resources I’ve had to move to SoCal where housing is first off available and second slightly cheaper. I had a hard transition and ended up stripping the first year. Now, a guy has paid for my cna license and I’m working at hospital by day and Bartending at night. I hope to save money to support myself while I complete an RN program. I don’t have to dance now but I’m sad about that part in my life. I know I’m bless though because at least I’m making it. I know many people who’s options are even slimmer. I’m not sure what the options are but I’m trying desperately to but my freedom so I can go back and help others obtain theirs. It’s cold out here but god is good. Be good to yourself and others 💯❤️
GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU, So Beautiful and Amazing!! U R building working hard for what you want Not sitting around being lazy begging the gvmt. For means of survival! THATS WHAT TERRIFIES THE GVMT THEY NEVER WANT HUMANITY TO REALIZE THAT YES, WE CAN SURVIVE AND THRIVE WITH OUT THEM!!! THEY,the gvmt, WILL NEVER ALLOW US TO KNOW THIER SECRETS IF THEY CAN HELP IT!!! So to all of you who are surviving with out them well you are doing SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT❤️💞THANK YOU
Wonder where they "acquired" the materials from.........
they want free housing and free services for being homeless it is a very lucrative business
They want to live off anyone and think it's their entitled right. That isn't tolerated in Oklahoma.
Kinda looked like my settlement in fallout 4 no joke.
I love the Street Theater 101 stuff from the 70's..chants and cheers and weepy Kumbaya nonsense... used to blame Rockefeller and the Trilateral Commission as I recall....
Brian Jones oh my God the trilateral commission I haven't heard of or thought about them for years
I paid for my " housing ". Worked my whole life for it. They want it free ... See the problem?
Build in the front yard of the activist own property if they care so much.
Stop voting for Pelosi!!!
One of the central problems here is that the homeless are using land meant for other things - sidewalks, bike trails, etc. And they are using land that is not theirs. What they need, among other things, is actual ownership of the property on which they camp, and for that property to be properly zoned for that kind of activity.
Fred Ferd I can agree with your statement they should either make more CHEAPER housing for them or reserve a bit of land
Yeah, I bet if we gave them land for them to camp on near transportation and services they would live there. until we have an economy and political system that provides for the poor, they'll do what they have to do to survive. Who can blame them? If you had nothing you''d do like they do too.
Fred Ferd yeah don't forget cemetary plots lots of them. Bike trails indead.
It's much easier for "big brother" to cremate a dead homeless person than it is to actually try to help them. They can store ashes anywhere - Dear God, what are we coming to!!!!!!!!
Fred Ferd & much more cost-effective. Cheers!
When the last American Job goes to Mexico, or China, or some other third world hellhole - WE'LL ALL BE HOMELESS!!!!
In this video i can see residential houses like 50 yarda away. Who the fuck would want drug addicts, criminals, and other homeless camping out so close? Fuck that, plus you have to own the land to build shit.
Tell me what you want, what you really want. Hand outs. Tell me what you need, what you really need. A job.
Based on rent to wage gap in SF most of them would still be homeless.
The problem is you are building your house that is not up to code on public property....you do not own that land.
What about the people who worked hard and purchased property close to were they are having their “camp” how is that right, leverage the tax payer to pander to the one group who pays no taxes at all........uh guys you don’t see the problem?
...and of course when there's a fire or building collapse they will sue the city for allowing construction of unsafe housing!
Plenty of slimey lawyers would take that case
How we can't be like the country of Bhutan who has designated land for homeless ppl to build and plant food so they can sustain. That country has zero homeless! What's wrong America?
The city shut it down because they CAN'T MAKE MONEY OFF IT OR TAX IT!!
That camp looked tight. I'm for that kind of homelessness
FUBAR
Let's see, live on the street and do drugs, or get a job and be responsible. Hmmm....
The news ain't nobody friends
Let them stay but tax them like the rest of the paying public
"We have a huge housing crunch" you're destroying houses, of course there's a fucking crunch, what do you expect?
we are all gods children do not judge anyone because when we die we will all be judged by god
Moving elsewhere is life
Come on... take those structures down and let's get them hauled away!
Jeez people you can't just take it upon yourself to build a shack wherever you want. We have zoning laws for a reason.
Of course the city shut this down, THEY CANT MAKE $$ OFF IT.....PLUS this would solve the homeless problem.
It popped up again, I just drove by it
Where were they poopin and peeing?
Of course it does not fit in the system
That was so mean I guess they didn't have the proper permits to satisfy the greedy bastards.
Back on streets. Wat a joke of a system.
I mean I feel for them but you cant just show up and claim land and build on it. This isn't 1850.
Sadly there is no land. We must give land masses to the poor to run. Many ppl can't afford the new economy of today. There is no where to push the unwanted any longer. We must stop birth rates from being so high, we must gave a lot of land for ppl like this to survive
America have the gall to talk about a great economy. These people are the greatest liars the world has ever known.
"We're in a housing crunch" well then issue the fucking permits to build some more instead of restricting them so that people are forced into artificially restricted supply
Yeah, issue permits for the homeless people to build tent cities in public places first.
The entitlement culture in California is absolutely ridiculous what makes these people think they deserve free land, no one else gets to get free land and property they have to pay for it what makes these people any different.
Put a wall around California Mr Trump ... thank you
red fred
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Stop enabling the homeless!!! Force them to work or die. That's it
Many are unemployable...physically disabled, too old, or have mental problems and drug addictions.
Is this how you want people to treat you if you lose your job and can't work?
Anyone could find themselves in this situation.
Load the box cars and transport them to the camps where they will be given hot soup and work
Employing homeless to clean the streets is a good idea
most are drug related, im sorry they had a choice, they choose wrong, im not letting someone who fucked there life away drag me down as well.
I don think you understand what you are saying. If a man is starving you will have to be a very heartless person to stand by and watch him die.
WE SPEND OVER 100 BILLION A YEAR ON ILLEGALS..............HMMMM LET'S SPEND THAT MONEY ON AMERICANS. WE SPEND 700 BILLION A YEAR ON FOREIGN AID. WE GIVE MONEY TO islamic COUNTRIES. WE NEED TO SPEND THAT MONEY DOMESTICALLY. WE NEED TO PUT PEOPLE BACK TO WORK. WE NEED TO CLEAN UP OUR COUNTRY.
Dude is a real dental case. Cheers!
FUCK/u}homeless/you all/fuck us who works, sleep/get up and work/ it's fuck/N.Korea can fix your problem, go work/ that's the American Dream &fck/u/all again*
The Grove Shafter Park is directly behind my house. Our backyard fence meets the park grass. Over the past four years myself and about 15- 35 neighbors have ctrated a community through our dogs. Believe it or not Oakland is a city of dog lovers. I've met a lot of my neighbors and their dogs through that park. We all look for we add to new puppies and mourn for the loss of our neighbors pet as well. This little community of ours is something we've built up. Through making relationships and letting our dogs become friends. Honestly without this park nom of us would know each others names. Do u know how wonderful it is to be able toplay with my dog and my catch up with neighbors after work? Not only do I feel safe, we all feel welcome amongst each other. Yeah there's that annoying dog that always jumps on me or that owner that never teaches jos dog to stop stealing everyone's. Ball... But whatever. Admittedly my dog introduces herself by handing every new comer a muddy slobbery Frisbee.
That encampment, The village, built their community in the middle of the field. They put down wood chips which are terrible for dog paws. They locked off the gates so I couldn't walk my dog at night. They said it was for their communitys safety so they wouldn't be looted. But that gate is publlic. Being locked out of my dog park, where I feel safe amongst my
community isn't final at all. I tried to explain to Anita Bee that if her argument was that "No one was using this park land. This land is everyone's land...", At least that what she said all over the news. Thay was the whole argument right? We don't need the city recources to settle into a peaceful community. That this was a suitable temporary housing solution overall... Yet
This encampment would encourage residents to contribute to the land and surrounding residents. Well let me tell you, they never planted an herb garden like they said. It was late January early February when tehy settled in. It was the dead of winter.. what was going to grow??? They ruined the field where they built houses and put down bark. They had no trash or bathrooms so there were rats everywhere. Drug activity, dumping, and tagging quadrupled. Worst of all... honestly I couldn't walk through the park with my dog because with was now surrounded by homeless males I didn't know. Everyone within our little dog community was chased out. No one could play on the field with their dogs after the community settled in. I tried expressing that it was unfair to lock up the park. Maybe I could have a spare key?? Dometjing?? Made it clear That I supported what they were doing as long as Anita was willing to recognize we ALL had to assimilate as a community.... She didn't care about assimilating. When I see these peaceful communal videos it makes me sick. All they did was disrupt what was already anawesome dog park. Drink, use drugs, ruin the landscape( which the city has yet to fix due to funding issues aka woidbsrk is everywhere), steal public water, leave trash virtually everywhere. Maybe the problem is that they ruin everywhere they go. I'm poor, my neighbors are all broke, but we fight for what we have. Our dog park was something everyone built as community over time. Years of watching puppies grow up, Jobs, picking up dog poop in the rain! Lots of muddy paws!
Nobody handed that neighbourly bond over. We became a community because we earned it...
Oh man my puppy got saw dust because other people were trying to get a HOUSE because they can't afford it. Oh poor me!
Angel Blue I do understand that it is a MAJOR problem in cities like this to have homeless everywhere BUT these people have either suffered a great loss or are drug addicts. We still have to remember that they are people and should probably get either a dedicated piece of land off the city or make a Homeless shelter for this problem. I understand where you are coming from that it is a hazard to have these type of "buildings" in a PUBLIC park. I respect your sole opinion and I truly hope that I have gotten my point across. It is just that she stated her concern like a spolied child that didnt want her puppy to get hurt. On that note I rest my case.
Angel Blue I also do belive it is wrong for them to do this on PRIVATE state property without permision.
Angel Blue My response was childish and inappropriate. I apologize
no permits... not the land owner... not to code... did not pay the bribes to politicians or to city counsel members. did not go through the political shit show of getting a permit.... they have a problem of over regulation. why would a builder spend millions of dollars to get a permit to even start building more housing without any real guaranty that they will be-able to do so. i know a guy who has a property in CA the building was torn down. he is 8 years into getting permits to build the same units he builds in every other state... he cant get a permit because the building will cast a shadow on the property... also the building is all electric heating/hot water/cooling with solar panel roof...
LET BUILDERS BUILD!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SanFranShithole is a homeless mess alright, all of the Homeless Cities are. Mostly because of the liberal thinking of the slum inhabitants & the leadership of the area. Without conservative (meaning traditions, solid proven ideals, saving for a tomorrow, preparing for the worst, having good values, saying NO to drugs & similar values) thinking, this kind of situation has metastasized like cancer & is out of control. Any education these people had is gone, any way to make things work for these lost souls is Smoke & Mirrors, it ain't gonna happen. Soon, they will be rounded up & taken to areas, that will be their place to slowly die, an area where they can be what they want to be & not be the eyesore they are on the city. It won't be pretty, but it will be a way for the leaders to turn their back on this unsolvable problem
It’s OAKLAND nigga vato the town baby Iraq Dub nation raider nation A’s ain’t goin stop is always ghetto except the Oakland hills the Oakland hills is the safest and the sides of Oakland south west Oakland hills Adams point little bit of downtown lakes side and northeast hills upper rock ridge is the safest neighborhood
These people are doing for themselves what Democrat Politicians won't. Leave them the hell alone if you can't do better. What a bunch of Smarmy Pricks these Dems vote in office.
Plenty of movie stars living alone in 12 bedroom houses. Problem solved.
Send them down to slab city
The issues is you can't just go some where in do what they did then want to call everyone else is the bad guy an the problem! OK let's say they said you all that is here Noe can set up you have 6 months that's it I bet you anything they all would still have shit no jobs nothing because that's not what they want they think everything should be handed to them!Then you got that one guy saying we didn't ask anyone for anything well that's the problem you don't own that land/ park and your building little homes I can't build a deck off my house with out a perment what makes you so fucking special! You didn't ask for anything from anyone yeah you did I see all kinds of shit there that I no they didn't get off the ass and work for no they ask for it!
I want housing dignity and a free place to live GIVE UP DRUGS AND ALCOHOL NO FUCK ING WAY
So, people came onto property that they did not own and told other people to come and live there. No facilities or utilities were provided. No city permission was sought. And now, the ramshackle mess is being hauled away.
As I sit here in my window in my beautiful home I looked out the window and I seen a soup kitchen / homeless shelter going up across the street what the hell man.!!!!!!! I thought I was having a nightmare now they're actually building mini houses on public property wow but it's not a dream it's reality there went my property values it doesn't seem fair I told myself what are my California Representatives going to do about this nothing like always spending billions where does that money go wherever it's going it's not to the homeless crooked politicians in California the golden shower state
The people that have paid for homes in that area where the shanty towns are being put up, probably want the cops to see that the eyesores are torn down. It's called "blight". It hurts the value of the investment they've made. And who can blame them?
Get jobs and work for food housing and cloths like the rest of us
cal berkly has alot of lawn to live on and woke kids to hang out with hurd them up there
Help AMERICAN people with housing. Less than one percent of homeless are ever housed.
Be sure the Gov will not help the people being the armpit of the nation. One excuse after another but will cater to fellons.
So sad to destroy all their hard work and determination so unfair and unnecessary
Well, you could let them live on your property.
Blue state nightmare get out of california
Back in the sixties hippies had communes. What the difference other than the type of drugs.
Did anyone else’s caption’s suddenly turn into a Spice Girls song???
Yeah not going to happen.. you can’t make ur own city in a city, as sadly as it looks but no
Stop providing services to illegal immigrants and use the money for Americans. This should not happen here