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  01/13/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  NA (Registered User)

  The lake has become a homeless encampment. I can’t believe I’m saying this but I miss Abel Guillen. Has Nikki Bas done or even said a thing about this environmental disaster?

  01/13/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Anonymous (Registered User)

  It is going to take more than the councilperson. Neighbors who live around the Lake should demand a meeting at City Hall with the Mayor.

  01/13/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Jim (Registered User)

  Hey Guys, nothing is probably going to be done and this site is useless. All it is, is a sounding board to help us vent our frustrations. My MLK & 23rd Street (a residential street) encampment has been there for over three years. I have date photos showing the dates. During our Northgate block meetings our council women, Lynette McElhaney was present and all she really said is to be patient and compassionate. Personally I ran out of patience and compassion after homeless people defecated on my private property four times. Clean-up was gross and the City does not clean on private property. You are on your own.

  01/13/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Ex Libris (Registered User)

  I'm re-posting my comment from another thread here:
  It may be time to stop using the term "homeless". Some of these people are definitely not homeless. I've overheard conversations where they refer to their homes as being "watched by police" and talk about how they can't park their cars in front of their homes because they would get repossessed. Some of these people are just hiding out in the park encampments. We (and City authorities) have been scammed. There may be actual homeless people deserving of aid and sympathy - but the City should start to do some real investigating of who's real and who's not.

  01/15/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Ex Libris (Registered User)

  I'm afraid the only solution is going to be a class-action lawsuit against the city from those who have suffered from Oakland's policy of allowing those who commit public-nuisance and disturbing-the-peace crimes free rein of our residential neighborhoods and parks. We should keep posting photos here and keep making videos of what we witness. This will all be evidence in court some day. It's also time the media heard about the truth of all this instead of relying on "homeless" enablers to tell the story.

  01/17/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Jim (Registered User)

  Ex Libris, I agree. On my MLK / 23rd St, a residential street, our encampment has been there for over three years and nothing is done besides cleaning their pile of garbage once a month or so. There's constant fires that they set. There's needles, piles of garbage and filth. I have dated photos saved in my computer that I showed our councilwomen, Lynette McElhabney at our Northgate Block meeting on May 17th 2018. To this date still nothing has been done. I even showed gross pictures of the poop that the homeless person defecated on my private property. This has happen four times and the City does not clean on private property, you are on your own. We have no support from the City for tax paying residents. Moreover, our encampments are on both sides of the street therefore pedestrians, handicap people with wheel chairs, mothers with baby strollers can not have access to the sidewalks. They have to travel into the street to the path of motor vehicles. What a mess. I'm ashamed to invite friends & family because my Street looks a ghetto in a third world country.

  01/17/2019 · Flag Flagged
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  Jim (Registered User)

  Hey guys, I just got blocked by rejections probably because I said somethings that they didn't want you to hear and know. This site is not free speech. I did not use any profane language. I just told the facts and my personal experiences.

  01/17/2019 · Flag Flagged

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