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Oakland Mayor Urges Residents to Take in Homeless: ‘Give Up That Airbnb’
Breitbart ^ | 11/4/17 | Adelle Nazarian

Posted on 11/05/2017 10:26:59 AM PST by workerbee

During her annual State of the City address on Thursday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called on her constituents to open their doors and residences to the city’s homeless, as union workers picketed against her for her administration’s handling of the city’s rampant housing problem. “Give up that Airbnb. Fix up that back unit,” Schaff said, encouraging property owners to lease apartments at more affordable rates to recently homeless individuals, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

“In Oakland, we don’t step over the homeless we step toward them,” Schaaf said.

The city’s uptick in vagrants is tied to a general gentrification in the Bay Area, stemming from San Francisco, where artists and innovators unable to afford skyrocketing rents have migrated to Oakland.

In May, the Chronicle noted that a survey by Everyone Counts found that the number of homeless persons in Oakland had increased by 25 percent since two years ago.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bluezones; california; homeless; libbyschaaf; lofan; oakland; sanfrancisco; schaaf; urban; yeahright
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To: eyeamok
Can’t she just Order all city employees to take 2 or 3 in to their homes?

I seriously won't be surprised if we see California try something like that - passing a law requiring those with a certain amount of property to provide shelters or some such thing. That is, forcing people to "do their fair share" to "help the community".

21 posted on 11/05/2017 10:36:48 AM PST by workerbee (America finally has an American president again.)
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To: EEGator

Squating rights in many States would give the property to the resident. Whomever put this out knew that.


22 posted on 11/05/2017 10:37:17 AM PST by Jean-Pierre67
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To: Heart of Georgia

“Maybe the mayor is tired of the recycled murder stories on Investigation Discovery and would like to see some new ones.”

I watch ID——very funny post.

“Forensic Files” is terrific,and better than most of ID.

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23 posted on 11/05/2017 10:39:49 AM PST by Mears
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To: workerbee

Most of us have enough problems and enough problematic relatives and friends of our own that to have to over room and board to someone else’s would be detrimental to our own survival. Yes, “Working People Matter!”


24 posted on 11/05/2017 10:39:52 AM PST by This I Wonder32460
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To: Heart of Georgia

Now there’s a thought...

Could be.


25 posted on 11/05/2017 10:40:39 AM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: DoughtyOne

Yep, I have a friend who took in a homeless guy. Went OK for a while, then the homeless guy started acting up. My friend told him he needed to leave. Guy burned his house down, total loss.

Guy got 3 years, friend got enough to pay off mortgage and now owns a vacant lot.


26 posted on 11/05/2017 10:42:44 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (CNN IS ISIS.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Yes, how many bums is she hosting?


27 posted on 11/05/2017 10:44:10 AM PST by onedoug
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To: workerbee

Let the mayor go first.


28 posted on 11/05/2017 10:46:49 AM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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To: workerbee

LOL maybe she can invite the homeless to stay with HER at her mansion..I mean seriously what could go wrong..notice liberals are always telling YOU what to do, but they never do it themseleves


29 posted on 11/05/2017 10:47:16 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: workerbee

LOL liberalism is a mental illness


30 posted on 11/05/2017 10:48:15 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: workerbee

Gee what a good idea. If I lived there, I’d definitely ask some junkie to move in.


31 posted on 11/05/2017 10:48:52 AM PST by Veto! (Political Correctness Offends Me)
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To: Dutch Boy

I wonder how much innovating is paying these days?


32 posted on 11/05/2017 10:50:22 AM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: workerbee

You first beyotch!


33 posted on 11/05/2017 10:50:27 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: DoughtyOne

She holds her event at a mosque, which won’t even allow men and woman to pray together.


34 posted on 11/05/2017 10:51:28 AM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: workerbee

“Schaaf also took the opportunity to rail against President Donald Trump, specifically choosing to hold her event at the Islamic Cultural Center. She did so, she reportedly said, to send “one clear message. And that is that Oakland welcome and honor all people, all families, and all communities.”

Another self-hating Secular Progressive Jew (aka capo). Just wonder how she’d fare as the mayor of a town in Israel? She should try “stepping over” a suicide bomber.


35 posted on 11/05/2017 10:54:54 AM PST by vette6387 (LOCK HER UP! COMEY TOO.)
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To: workerbee

As I recall Ed and Lois Smart took in a homeless couple. All that happend was their 14 year old daughter got kidnapped and raped but said homeless couple. So yeah, good idea mayor.


36 posted on 11/05/2017 10:55:12 AM PST by Angels27
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To: ASOC

Yeah, I wonder how many the good mayor has taken in?
Many people won’t stay at shelters because they can’t or won’t follow the rules about substance abuse and what is acceptable behavior.
Oakland will not be “sending their best” to your doorstep.


37 posted on 11/05/2017 10:56:47 AM PST by GnuThere
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To: workerbee

Many of the homeless were made that way with major tranquilizers, ECT and lobotomies. Those are pretty much unsalvageable. The rest are just too lazy to work. I will never hand out even a single nickel to those lazy bums. Much less let one in my house so he can steal everything or worse. They aren’t victims of circumstance. They are criminals.


38 posted on 11/05/2017 10:58:09 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: workerbee

You first, Lbby.

You first.

L


39 posted on 11/05/2017 10:58:41 AM PST by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: workerbee

Then they would not be homeless. Then a few million would become homeless. Assume they were taken in by residents. Then they would not be homeless. Then a few million more would become homeless. And the cycle would continue without end.


40 posted on 11/05/2017 11:00:24 AM PST by I want the USA back (ItÂ’s Ok To Be White. White Lives Matter. White Guilt is Socially Constructed)
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