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Posted on 03/22/2022 10:41:35 AM PDT by rktman
Seems the idea of "free homes" for the homeless, touted as a panacea to end the problem, isn't quite working out the way its advocates said it would.
In Oakland, at a concentrated community of "tiny homes," given out by the city to the homeless, the result was this, according to The Oaklandside:
A fire Monday morning incinerated three tiny-home shelters at a city-run transitional-housing site at E. 12th Street and 2nd Avenue, across from Lake Merritt.
Nobody was injured, according to authorities, but five people who were living in the scorched shelters were displaced. A fourth tiny-home was damaged as well.
Oakland Fire Department Chief of Staff Michael J. Hunt said the cause of the fire, which began around 10 a.m., is under investigation. Twenty firefighters responded to the incident and got the fire under control by 10:30 a.m. Thick smoke from the blaze could be seen from downtown Oakland and neighborhoods around the lake.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
When do the homeless create their own form of policing and justice...I suspect it will come down to a form of tribal warfare, might makes right sort of thing.
Meth lab fire?
Large explosion (BOOOOOM!) followed by a large fireball, black smoke, and lots of smaller explosions (POP POP POP) during the ensuing fire at the tiny home village at E12th St and 2nd Ave
That’s the real problem here, not the “tiny houses.” The leftists who run these cities with tiny homes just think throwing more money at the problem will solve it.
Immortan Joe for president!
If they just had high school chemistry teachers helping them make meth this would not happen....
;-)
Ya know, the Park Service has signs saying “Don’t feed the bears” for a reason. It isn’t good for the bears, and it isn’t good for the tourists.
California should learn from the Park Service.
with the price of lumber these days im surprised the ‘homeless’ who were given tiny houses didn’t disassemble them and sell the wood and plumbing, nails, insulation etc etc etc
The article asks:
“Should the homeless actually be given free homes by the state without paying for them?”
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I suspect they probably don’t have much in the way of 401Ks or stock options to liquidate for quick funds with which to purchase real estate.
Made homeless.
It's like the adage that money returns to its rightful owners.
Socialism fails...every time it’s tried.
They had to cook up some meth first.
The only thing you give freeloaders is a one way ticket to somewhere else.
It's like hitting oneself in the head with a hammer in order to become smarter. The ones that insist it works, but say isn't being done right, haven't tried it themselves - and the ones that did are now brain damaged.
Large explosion (BOOOOOM!) followed by a large fireball, black smoke, and lots of smaller explosions (POP POP POP) during the ensuing fire at the tiny home village at E12th St and 2nd Ave (Oakland). Thanks @OaklandFireCA @OaklandFireLive for the quick work! pic.twitter.com/wF5l2YhzCX— Pat Agium (@patagium98) March 21, 2022
Why are they homeless in the first place?...hmmm...scratching head!
That’s one real problem in Calif.
The temperate weather is a magnet.
“Meth lab fire?”
Aren’t the portable or Walmart aisle lab fixin’s called a Nazi-Meth-Lab?
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