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 citys homeless, as union workers picketed against her for her administrations handling of the citys 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 dont step over the homeless we step toward them, Schaaf said.
The citys 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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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 dont step over the homeless we step toward them, Schaaf said.
The citys 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.
However, I was recently told that San Fran is assessing taxes against tech firms on a per capita basis...Is that even legal?
San Fran loves the revenue from the tech companies, but no tax incentives for housing for the people. If they are concerned, let them lower property taxes or tax breaks.
Let her be the first to “fix up that back unit” and take in some homeless.
BTW, who or what are “innovators?
Great idea. Let professional scam artists with records of mental illness and arrests take your address as their own...in California, a state with very strong tenant protection laws.
What could go wrong?
There are no homeless people. There are people who can’t get aid from the government because of outstanding warrants. There are the Urban Outdoorsmen who choose a lifestyle. There are those who work as a homeless person during the day. And there are genuine crazies that would be in a mental hospital, except California led the nation in getting involuntary commitments ruled unconstitutional 40 years ago.
OK mayor. How many in your extra bedrooms?
And therein is the "rub"..
If you invite them in, and then not charge them rent, they can assert adverse possession because you didn't charge them rent.
Once there, you can't evict them.
"If you can make it to kommiefornia soil, you're home free", or something to that effect.
Let’s start with you, Miz Mayor.
In Oakland, we dont step over the homeless we step toward them, Schaaf said. It’s the taxpayers and property owners we step on.
This woman needs to spend some time with the homeless. Many of them are homeless because even their own families have given up on them.
Feed them and clothe them, yes, if you wish to (biblically it’s the right thing to do), but having them live in your house? *shakes head no*
Don’t step over them. That’s getting waaay too close and the smell alone can cause lasting injury.
Walk around them. 50 feet clearance minimum.
Do you have a Big House Libby ? If so than Fill Your Boots
Knowing California Landlord Tenant laws, if you take a homeless person into your home, it will be at least 24 months before you can kick them out if they do not want to leavers
Given California homeless advocate lawyers, you will probably go bankrupt in the process fighting the lawsuits they file against you to prevent you from evicting these people
Agree FF is one of the better ones on ID. We’re trying out life with no cable, but there’s a channel called Escape that I pick up with antennae. They show a lot of FF.
LMAO...I think I can safely say.....NONE!
but her heart is in the right place..That's all that matters.../s
I'm sure that will work out just fine.
Especially if you have young children in the home.
This is insanity. Pure and simple.
In my family, we have some drunks.
None are mental. So, maybe not most - I will agree to "A lot".
Anchorage is now going thru a *bit* of a problem with thousands of 'homeless' that is costing the muni an arm and leg.
The local "Catholic charity" runs a full time feeding station and no-cost flophouse for the 'homeless' The area is now lousy with drunks/crackheads. The ones living on the street are bad enough, but the ones 'camping' in the nearby woods are a eco-disaster
"Quartering." But these invaders will have less discipline than a formal army, usually.
Has anybody ever noticed that under a democrap administration the homeless just seem to disappear, then as soon as there is a Republican in the Oval Office they multiply at an exponential rate?
I assume the mayor is leading by example, correct?
Sad. I hate Russian literature because too much booze and not enough sun. Same problem in Alaska. I usually assume that “drunks” are self medicating because that’s what my son did for twenty years. He was bi-polar. Very bright. Tried so hard to be normal, took his meds but they didn’t keep up with this multiple health issues.
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