Posted on 06/02/2024 8:17:22 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Shocking footage has emerged showing a gigantic 'shantytown' that has sprung up in Oakland, as the California city's slide into crime-ravaged squalor continues.
Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a video on May 31 of massive temporary houses built along service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland.
The footage showed trash strewn around scores of houses that were built of wood, tarp and other discarded materials.
Particularly shocking was just how large the 'shantytown' is, with a lengthy stretch of road in the Bay Area city covered with the makeshift dwellings.
Oxford could be heard calling the area a 'shantytown' that is 'absolutely mindboggling,' as he remarked how 'insane it is that [city officials] allow this.'
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(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
North America becoming more like South America. Shantytowns and a few billionaires.
The DM sure does overuse “shocking.” And nothing they call “shocking” is actually shocking.
It might be shocking if you went to sleep in 1970 and just woke up to the New America. But to those of us witnessing the destruction of the USA in real-time it’s just what we’ve come to expect in Dem-run cities.
Sheng Thao & Pamela Price representatives of the people.
I bet that the property taxes are reasonable.
Have they tapped into the city’s water/sewage/power etc ? LOL
A search for “shocking” - https://freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=shocking
It is appropriate that a reporter named “Ishita Srivastava” covered this sh**hole of a story.
No USA reporting. This report is from the UK:
City officials don’t “allow” this.
They encourage it.
The author misspelled “Newsomville”.
The reporter's last name should be "brick".
the hometown of uber liberal actor Tom Hanks if memory serves me...
And MC Hammer.
yes, we visited Oakland California a few months ago and this is what it looks like
A once-very decent (and clean) city of working people, open shops, and tidy streets.
Now a garbage dump.
(there are still some decent, nice neighborhoods in the hill country but most of the major part of Oakland is just as the article shows, a dangerous garbage dump)
it is so sad, and the politicians keep making it worse with their communistic crap and “reverse” racism (which is still racism)
Gruesome Newsom’s “New Haiti”. No sidewalks so the inhabitants can crap anywhere.
Bidenvilles.
We are becoming Brazil thanks to the democrats and the open border swamp creatures. The wealthy live behind fences with guards while the rest of us live in violent favelas where gang law rules.
A “Bidenville”. Well, if Hoovervilles were alright turnabout is fair play.
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