Posted on 08/20/2026 4:50:48 AM PDT by Red Badger
Imagine you are dropping your child off for the first day of college, and when you get to his dorm it is surrounded by mountains of garbage and homeless people living in sidewalk tents.
That's exactly what happened to one woman who also happens to work in journalism and decided to break out her phone to document the experience.
If you're from out of state, tuition at UC-Berkeley can run up to around $50,000 per year with room and board. Who would expect to see homeless encampments and garbage on the streets at those prices?
The New York Post reports:
Mom rages after disgusting homeless camp greets son on arrival to elite California college
A California mother has blasted Berkeley officials over a massive homeless encampment near her son’s UC Berkeley housing unit — filled with rows of tents, piles of trash and debris.
“I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments. Shame on @CityofBerkeley @CityofAlbanyCA @UCBerkeleyNews,” TV reporter and mom Lyanne Melendez wrote on X.
Melendez shared video of the sprawling encampment along the 1150 block of Harrison Street, near student housing and businesses frequented by students, less than three miles from the university’s main campus.
The California Post visited the area Wednesday and observed numerous tents and makeshift shelters packed closely together near a Tesla service facility, along with significant amounts of belongings and debris surrounding the structures.
Some areas appeared to have limited space for pedestrians, while tarps, personal belongings and other materials were spread throughout the encampment.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
why stunned? it’s california
Shoild establish camps for these wretches. Must be isolated from the normal world. Use for medical research instead of animals.
The first time I heard the term “Open Ward” used referring to UCB was in the early 50’s.
I was raised in Oakland.
Not surprised.
And “Peoples Park” anyone remember that?
As bad as this looks, honey, the garbage that they are going to fill his head with is going to be much, much worse.
“””tuition at UC-Berkeley can run up to around $50,000 per year with room and board.”””
When I was in college 60 years ago, it would have cost about $3000 to $4000 per year for tuition, room and board.
Costs have increased 12 to 16 times.
Thus, we now have 20 year olds advocating for communism so the government will provide ‘free’ college education.
The state run university system has become a cesspool.
$4000 in 1960 is $45,600 in today’s dollars.
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=4000&year1=196001&year2=202607
So not that much different, just bigger numbers.........
“Homeless people are not poor”
In San Francisco back in the 90s I was standing in line at the ATM behind a homeless bum looking guy, he was about 60. He got his cash out of the ATM and walked away, his receipt came out as I stepped up to the ATM, he had a $25,000 bank balance.
...do they still call you folks “Stumpies”...?? and
not sure what “ESF” means....graduated from SU wayyyyy
back many years ago...I believe it was then called
the College of Forestry or something like that..
Presently tent dwellers are people who have chosen to dwell in tents rather than in houses. The fact they have made such a choice does not make them mentally ill
What did she expect to see? Berkeley has been a filthy borderline Third World slum for a long, long time.
Bingo. When my daughter was in High School, we took time to visit several campus’s. I wanted her to see the places and get a feel for the culture at each place. Plus I wanted to scope out the surrounding area.
Mostly druggies.
“”She voted for it, enjoy it.””
NOT AGAIN!!!! That is so stale - outdated and tiresome....
I was in the university area of Berkeley circa 2010 and it didn’t look like that. The university area of Berkeley was the upscale area of Berkeley.
San Francisco and Berkeley did have homeless people. I didn’t see tents at that time.
A homeless man asked me for a $1 to buy a sandwich at the Berkeley McDonald’s. He just wanted the dollar. I told him I’d would buy the sandwich or he wouldn’t get anything from me.
So is California.
NOT AGAIN!!!! That is so stale - outdated and tiresome....
Yet true.
This is not just New-Scum’s vision for America, it’s the entire Democrat/Communist/Jihadist Party’s vision for America ... born of “compassion”, doncha know!
Psssssttttt! Research lady. Then again, if she’s dropping ‘them’ off at berzerklee.........
SUNY ESF is the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry.
I took ONE forestry course(Dendrology-standing tree ID) the entire time I was there. We walked around the big cemetery a lot looking at big old trees.
When I was there I was paying $2500 a year for tuition. Kids at SU right next door were paying $9K. We got to take all the same classes. When I took an elective course with a lab fee the state of NY paid the lab fee. $250 for Scuba diving. I took my open water in Skaneateles Lake.
There was also the SUNY Nursing school there too. Most of the girls lived in the dorm right by the highway. We called it the Convent.
I lived at South Campus. In those concrete shoe boxes up on the hill. Then I lived on Fellows Ave. Which was out Euclid Ave about ten blocks east of the campus.
I also worked at the Carrier Dome in events production. I set up for football, basketball, concerts or any other Dome event. Got to see a lot of concerts for free. Met a few entertainers. Also got to stand next to Patrick Ewing(monster center from Georgetown) and saw Ronnie Seikle turn from a big tall Klutz into a professional Basketball player.
I was only there my junior and senior year. I went to SUNY Morrisville for my first two years. Morrisville was down on Rt 20 between Cazenovia and Colgate U.
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