Posted on 11/05/2017 10:26:59 AM PST by workerbee
During her annual State of the City address on Thursday, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf called on her constituents to open their doors and residences to the city’s homeless, as union workers picketed against her for her administration’s handling of the city’s rampant housing problem. “Give up that Airbnb. Fix up that back unit,” Schaff said, encouraging property owners to lease apartments at more affordable rates to recently homeless individuals, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“In Oakland, we don’t step over the homeless we step toward them,” Schaaf said.
The city’s uptick in vagrants is tied to a general gentrification in the Bay Area, stemming from San Francisco, where artists and innovators unable to afford skyrocketing rents have migrated to Oakland.
In May, the Chronicle noted that a survey by Everyone Counts found that the number of homeless persons in Oakland had increased by 25 percent since two years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Many homeless have mental issues.
So what could go wrong?
Bring someone into your home and expect at least some rape, molestations, thefts, physical attacks, worse...
These political leaders are quite willing to see the populace subjected to this.
Let’s review. First they brought these people into your communities and partially destroyed them. Now they want them in your home.
It’s time for some short rope and high branches.
That’s not a policy. That’s simply a bizarre fantasy.
Amazing how we accept this from our chosen “leaders.”
The more you reward something, the more you get of that something.
How many homeless does the mayor have living in her home? /s
while there are circumstances where people become suddenly destitute, many many homeless are homeless due to a choice...
they don't want the confinement or rules of staying in free housing....
Why would any sane person take in a chronic inebriate (English translation = drunken bum) crack or meth head?
A ‘normal’ renter is a big enough PITA...
But then, a good Communist never sees a down side to taking **your** property.
Can’t she just Order all city employees to take 2 or 3 in to their homes?
Another example of liberal naivete.
Maybe they picked the wrong occupations for that area.
Hey Mayor! Lead by example. You go first.
“encouraging property owners to lease apartments at more affordable rates to recently homeless individuals”
Are they homeless because they couldn’t pay their rent, or some other reason? If because they couldn’t pay their rent, what would be a more affordable rate?
Obvious question. How many has she taken in? Funny how the homeless disappeared for 8 years.
“The city’s uptick in vagrants is tied to a general gentrification in the Bay Area, stemming from San Francisco, where artists and innovators unable to afford skyrocketing rents have migrated to Oakland.”
And a lot of other East and North Bay Cities. We have had to install internet-based security cameras in an office building we have owned for 18 years in an well-known wine country city. This past week alone, we have had to call the police to evict several “transients” who were attempting to sleep on our premises. It’s not fun to have your iPhone alert you to a trespass at 2 a.m. but at least they are gone before the tenants show up and have to step over them. The cops are frustrated because recent changes to CA law makes arresting them impossible. Trespasses are now no longer misdemeanors, but rather “infractions.”
You first, Mayor. You first.
Squating rights in many States would give the property to the resident. Whomever put this out new that.
“Bring someone into your home and expect at least some rape, molestations, thefts, physical attacks, worse...”
Maybe the mayor is tired of the recycled murder stories on Investigation Discovery and would like to see some new ones.
Oakland Mayor Urges Residents to Take in Homeless:
Kookoo is as Kookoo does. Libafornia nut hits the heights of kookoo.
Fact is, most families have someone who is mentally ill and probably self medicating. Look around.
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