Caltrans to clear Oakland homeless encampment near MacArthur Maze

They'll clear it, and a month later, it'll look just like it did before they "closed" it.

It's not just Oakland. Small to mid sized cities are seeing a huge influx of homelessness. The U.S. is turning into a third world country astonishingly fast.

I used to be homeless. The harder you make it on homeless people the more motivated they are to not want to be homeless. Giving people free handouts when they're homeless is enabling people to want to be homeless. Stop it!

This encampment will only reappear elsewhere and will actually be larger then it was before.

Funny how squatter rights don’t apply here yet everyone else has to spend tons of cash on legal crap just to get their rights back.

They are bums , there is more $$$$$ available for them to get help , assistance , and shelter than there is for us , the tax payers ... BS.......

How Oakland ever let it get this bad is beyond reason.

The bigger question is, why did they allow the camp to grow this big in the first place! Vote out the people that have allowed this problem to grow unchecked.

this feels like 3rd world

See this is where it’s so ridiculous to me. They let them get huge and out of control and then they shut them down. Did they ever think that perhaps they should avoid the situation altogether and shut them down right from the get go? Soon as somebody plops a tent down they should be removed instead of allowing 500 more tents to line the streets and neighbors have to complain and crime to ramp up. They wait for the situation to escalate and businesses to go out and people to fear for their lives and their children’s lives before they do something about it. SMH

They’ll just go somewhere else, and then somewhere else after that 😟

Saw this about 3 years ago..I'm never going back.

Cincinnati (pre-COVID) passed a "no trespassing, camping or loitering on public property after nightfall IF there are beds available in a shelter". It is working.

Someone needs to tell David that it is not someone else's job to find him a place to live. That is his job! Good Grief!

Before they clear it, they need a good plan on how they will prevent the new camp from coming right back or other camps from being formed in other areas.

Activists: Everything is fine Mentally ill and drug addicts roaming free There is no crime It's wonderful and Compassionate Normal People: Help!!!!!!!!!!!! Fires, Crime, drugs, mentally ill, garbage

Theres a place called Alameda Point Collaborative that has turned a retired air force (or naval, can’t remember) base into low income multi family housing. Worked there for two years. Gardens, jobs, training, substance abuse programs, counseling, everything. Hope they can do something like that.

San Francisco will be able to handle the evicted homeless at the sidewalks of the mission district.

If I was homeless, at least I'd clean up after myself.

I hope the poor homeless folks can be relocated to City Hall and see how compassionate the mayor and the city council really are. Liberalism is a mental disease.