photo credit: Keith Burbank
Oakland city crews have removed 300 tons (over 600,000-pounds) of trash and debris and towed 29 vehicles, including six that were stolen, since beginning to close the Wood Street homeless encampment, officials said Friday.
This week, three dozen former residents accepted shelter at the new Wood Street cabin program and seven took part in the Safe RV Parking program, the city said.
The site in West Oakland was once the city’s largest encampment with an estimated 200 to 300 residents.
Work began April 10 to close the Wood Street camp. The effort will enable development of 170 units of permanent affordable housing, officials said.
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Oakland’s flat lands is a dump.
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The Wood Street encampment is indicative of Oakland’s weak and ineffective leadership, failed policies, and uncivilized conditions.
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Its no surpise all three major sports franchises have left or are leaving the city. Why would any professional sports team want to represent mediocrity?
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Oakland is a dead city. Good riddance.
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But all my VALUABLES!
Moved into the encampment one pound at a time.
@Ricardoh – What I have seen is that the cops show up first and force the residents to move their stuff out onto the sidewalk or some other nearby public area. A cleaning crew then goes through with bulldozers and/or Bobcats and clear out the remains of the encampment, and loads it into dump trucks. That’s the 300 tons that they picked up this time. The homeless people move their stuff back to the encampment sites. The official announcements are that the encampment was “closed.” The reality is that thee dozen (about 35) of the 300 residents claim they will move into city-paid-for-housing and the remaining 265 residents will be moving back into the encampment that day. I suspect most of the thee dozen will also move back into the encampment as they will discover that city-paid-for-housing has undesirable rules such as no drugs, no alcohol, and no overnight storage of “stuff.”