Homelessness has 'exploded' in this California city, making it the 'land of gay dick milk and fentanyl,' activist says

[Another Newsom Mess]

On 17 Apr 2023, Molly Bolt <***@gmail.com> posted some news:e0a53526-9339-442b-89ba-***@googlegroups.com:
OAKLAND, Calif. – Open-air drug markets, narcotic tourism, rampant theft
and lax camping regulation have made Oakland "unlivable," a neighborhood
advocate told Fox News.

"Oakland and San Francisco have become the promised land of milk and
fentanyl, and people are coming here," Seneca Scott, founder of Neighbors
Together Oakland, told Fox News. "People who are homeless in Oakland now
typically are not from here. They're drug tourists."

Recently, people have been flocking to "Fentanyl Island" a patch of land
between 7th St. and Brush St. in West Oakland which Scott describes as an
open-air drug market that is home to dozens of burned-out vehicles.
"They're coming here for the safe and easy access to their drug of choice
and the ability to also steal to support those habits, because there's no
rule of law."

The homeless population in Oakland more than doubled from 2015 to 2022,
growing to over 5,000, according to city data. In Alameda County, where
Oakland is located, homelessness has similarly ballooned, growing to 9,700
in last year, county data show.

HOW OPEN-AIR DRUG MARKETS, DRUG TOURISM, AND RETAIL THEFT HAVE MADE
OAKLAND A POPULAR DESTINATION FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE:

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"Our homeless crisis has helped deteriorate our property value," Scott
said. "If you combine that with the eviction moratorium and other
government policies, we have a situation now where the property values of
people are plummeting."

An Oakland property manager told Fox News last month that RVs lining the
streets around her apartment building appalled potential tenants, making
it difficult for her to fill empty units. Fires have also become a major
issue in homeless encampments. Last year, one person died after a blaze
trapped them in their RV.

"A big part of Oakland's homeless crisis are open-air drug markets and our
permissiveness of RV parking and basically anything goes for selling
drugs," Scott told Fox News. "It's created unlivable situations."

Residents believe homelessness is Oakland's most urgent problem, with 36%
saying it should be the top priority for the 2023-2024 budget, according
to a survey of 1,270 locals. The same poll found that 63% disapproved of
the job the city government is doing.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a letter to Oakland officials
last year calling their handling of encampments was "simply unacceptable."

WELCOME TO FENTANYL ISLAND WHERE HOMELESSNESS DOUBLED IN LESS THAN A
DECADE:

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Despite the city's picturesque weather and skilled labor force, "you have
a situation of homelessness that's exploded," Scott told Fox News. "It's
creating a very untenable situation when it comes to our ability to have a
healthy and thriving business community."

"We have people who would love to invest in Oakland," Scott said. "But as
long as … our neo-progressive are in charge, who seem hell-bent on this
policy, no one is going to come here."

To watch the full interview with Scott, click here.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/homelessness-exploded-california-city-making-
land-milk-fentanyl-activist-says

[Thank Gavin Newson & Pelosi]

You blue voting cock suckers got exactly what you wanted. The people
you elected said they would stop holding criminals accountable and you
elected them anyway. So who are the stupid fucks?

"Pirates" in the San Francisco Bay are sinking a nonprofit boating
school for kids as homeless bandits wreak havoc along the Oakland and
Alameda shores.

Kame Richards, who owns the Alameda Community Sailing Center, said that
four of their eight safety boats, which cost between $25,000 and $35,000
each, had been stolen and destroyed by seafaring bandits.

"We cannot run our program without these boats," Richards wrote in a
letter to a local municipal commission that focuses on enforcement in
the bay.

"The response we received from APD (Alameda Police Department) was that
they could do nothing, and a warning not to approach the perpetrators if
we located our boats."

Since the summer, burglars have been using small boats to raid yachts
and houseboats in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary, which is populated by
marinas with over 3,000 slips, to steal anything of value.

Then, they either sink the ships or dump whatever is left of them miles
away in the Oakland Harbor or along its shorelines.

Since the summer, burglars have been using small boats to raid yachts
and houseboats in the Oakland-Alameda Estuary, which is populated by
marinas with over 3,000 slips, to steal anything of value.

Then, they either sink the ships or dump whatever is left of them miles
away in the Oakland Harbor or along its shorelines.

The sailing school needs one safety boat for each group of six sailboats
on the water, Richards said, but it's on the cusp of closing.

"If we don't have enough safety boats, we can't put enough kids on the
water," she said during the meeting. "We had all hands on deck to
retrieve this stuff, and it took 35 hours to get a police report number
from the Alameda Police Department.

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