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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.
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Obviously she didn’t accompany the kid during the initial ‘do I like this place’ visits.
What did she expect?
“Woman Dropping Her Son Off for College at UC-Berkeley Stunned by Tons of Homeless Tents and Garbage Around Dorms”
Mainly people who got admitted due to DEI but haven’t bothered showing up to classes.
Homeless people are not poor. They are mentally ill. Why go to school next to crazies?
Where you live after the degree.
With a college the size of Berkeley, this may not have been obvious on a casual campus trip.
The garbage is out and the garbage is in.
Better dope?.
Newsome has turned California into something like a dump in Somalia.
Welcome to Bezerkley.
His soul is possessed by Satan.
Only someone completely evil and devoid of anything good could take such a beautiful and plentiful state and intentionally destroy it.
Around the dorms? I read that it was *in* the dorms.
..Fresh organic vegan markets, art fairs, street choirs and sidewalk sales in the Department Store dreamcatcher of her mind.
It’s so tragic when commies get what they ask for.
She voted for it, enjoy it.
Berzerkeley has always looked like that.
I grew up in WNY.
I went to college for Wood Products Engineering @ SUNY ESF Syracuse. Class of 85.
I considered Berkley back in 1980. However, I knew it was a hippie school from what I had read/heard about in the 60s & 70s. That is was in a bad area even back then.
SO, IF this lady did not know Berkley was in a SH#T hole area, then she is a DUMB A$$.
FYI, my son looked at University of Vermont in Burlington for graduate school. He considered it until he visited. Bernie and his socialists have turned that once beautiful city on the lake to a drug den sh#t hole too.
Basically ANYWHERE SOCIALISM goes into effect turns into a SH#T HOLE. Didn’t these people learn ANYTHING from what happened to Eastern Europe?
Don’t forget addicted as well.
And that’s the upscale camp. You she see the slums!
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