As for homeless encampments, they are all over the Bay Area.
Posted on 06/02/2024 1:06:02 AM PDT by knighthawk
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
As for homeless encampments, they are all over the Bay Area.
My elderly relatives spoke often about what an incredible city San Francisco was in the 50s and even into the 60s - my mother said you didn’t go there unless you dressed up, it was a very formal, elegant city at that time. I’ve seen the old videos and they are heartbreaking compared to what SF is now.
“I’ve seen the old videos and they are heartbreaking compared to what SF is now.”
True of every big city in the USA, of course.
I lived in San Francisco for a few years starting in the summer of ‘73. It was a wonderful place.
Don’t you mean ‘RUINING’ the city?
Note one man who got out of the dump saying what’s caused it is drugs.
When Addicts are honest they all say that anyone taking drugs know the lifesyle they will end up in.
Most homeless are not homeless..... they are druggies who lost their homes and families because of their drug use and desire to get high....and sustain that lifestyle.
But that’s the new face of America Obama promised.
Any USA coverage?
https:/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13484975/Video-California-street-houses-wood-shantytown-oakland.html
Yep! Years ago I enjoyed going there. Today I do not even consider going there. San Francisco is committing slow suicide.
You mean a Brandon-vil. They used to call them Hoover-vils during the Depression, so turnabout is fair play.
Agent of China sabotaging American cities.
... the government began working on a fence along the Israel-Egypt border, which was completed by 2012, thereby bringing further illegal crossings to near zero.
Golly!
What a concept!
This has been around a LONG time!!
2 Thessalonians 3:10
While we were with you, we gave this order: "If anyone doesn't want to work, he shouldn't eat.".
If you give a homeless bum money you’re giving them a down payment on their next hit of drugs. I don’t care what they look like and where they’re begging at (e.g, a ‘family’ at the local Walmart, for instance).
If you give a homeless bum money you’re giving them a down payment on their next hit of drugs.
Sounds like the sequel to “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie”.
HEY-—MANY OF US LIVE IN THE “DESERT” & WE DO NOT NEED THE FREE LOADERS.
That’s very true. Also they have the ‘sympathy script’ down to a science. And they’re always going to go to rehab tomorrow. It’s all BS.
Oakland. So famous overseas.
Burning Man isn't until late August, but it's an interesting approach.
The degeneration of this city is a severe warning sign for our country and its health.
Consider that Oakland, CA is a major West Coast port city and (per Wikipedia) the fifth-busiest port in the U.S. per cargo volume. It is an intermodal shipping port and was the West Coast terminus of the new transcontinental railroad. For such a significant and strategically important city to suffer decline can bode very bad things.
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