this person has been camped here for more than a YEAR now! I've reported the camp before, to no avail. since they set up camp there, graffiti and dumping have gone up exponentially on this block :/

You'd think OAKLAND would start looking for solutions. It's the same places over again. As many run down houses and buildings in this. city , you"d think they could make arrangements for the homeless or make camps where they can set up . Too much money is spent cleaning up the same spot over and over again.

City of Oakland Public Works Department addressed this issue on 05/23/2015, service request # 579932.

The homeless encampment is still there. This picture was taken moments ago:

The City of Oakland Public Works Department has received this issue. It is registered as service request #583285. Please check back for status updates, or contact us directly at 510-615-5566.

How does this work? The issue continues but gets closed by the City? Who at the City is verifying these reports? Basically, nobody is accountable.... Right?

That's how it works, they think people won't notice. Then when they are cleaned up, then return within a few minutes cause they know they can .

This picture was taken on June 9th, 9am... encampment still there...

How does this get closed but yet the encampment is still there.? Who is being held accountable. I've seen this happen before and why isn't someone going and checking to see if they are doing their job. Makes u wonder.....

taken this morning, camp is still there, bonus dumping in the foreground

Makes you wonder what is really going on. Hmmm seems like a supervisor needs to be checking to see if issues are being done as they say.

This is the THIRD camp in a 2 block radius. There is another one just around the corner on 20th street, and yet another one around the corner from that, on Mandela Parkway. All three have been there for quite a long time now, and all three have been reported (two of them reported on multiple occasions)

There is a terrible, seemingly widespread practice in Oakland of allowing these sites to remain (in this site's case, for more than a year), in order to raise 'urban blight' and reduce the property values in particular neighborhoods. It's a cheap tactic employed by property developers to get a deal on land, and one I've seen in many cities I've lived in... none nearly as rampant as Oakland, though...

This is why the city council member Ms. McElhaney needs to do something or quit. She allows this because she can't come up with a solution. The homeless don't want housing because they'd have to follow the laws. Since they want to live on the streets there still needs to be rules set up for them. Sidewalks, parks, behind people's backyards, in neighborhoods should be banned.

7 votes out of 155 views this is the same issue we have with our city leaders PURE APATHY. Not voting = Not caring.

The original post was made months ago, and the squatter has been there nearly two years.

The other camps in the neighborhood were finally cleared out, why hasn't this one been cleared away too? What was the trigger for the other two sites (that were just cleared away in the last 48 hours)

(this picture was taken just 20 minutes ago)

Why am I not surprised. Makes me wonder what is really going on?

Last night, this camp EXPLODED and caught fire. 9 hours after the fire, it's still smoldering. Now it's a giant pile of charred rubble... will you clean that up, Oakland? or will it be here for another two years??

Thanks for doing absolutely nothing for almost two years on this, City Of Oakland.

Send these pictures to every council member. Ms. McElhaney needs to get with it and quit making excuses. The homeless don't want housing, and that's good cause they'd probably burn it down anyway. This crap needs to stop. If she can't find a solution, find someone who can.