Homelessness has ‘exploded’ in this California city, making it the ‘land of milk and fentanyl,’ acti

[libertybele]

Homelessness has ‘exploded’ in this California city, making it the ‘land of milk and fentanyl,’ activist says

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. ................

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

[PeteS in CA]

Oakland has been descending deeper and deeper into Hell-Hole-hood for decades. I remember being nervous about going to a convention in Oakland in 1996, and Oakland was not at the beginning of its descent even then. I don't know where Seneca Scott has been that she doesn't know this.

[libertybele]

CA is in rough shape period.  Newsom and Feinstein need to take on some responsibility.

[PeteS in CA]

Feinstein has not held a state or municipal level office in around 4 decades. She has no authority at the state of municipal level.

Goobernor Noisome, OTOH, is the governor and before that he was the Mayor of SF (across the bay from Oakland), but he is part of cause of the Bay Area's problems and seems unlikely to change to trying to be part of any solution.

[Fishrrman]

bele wrote:
"Newsom and Feinstein need to take on some responsibility."

haha. You make a good joke, right?

Feinstein... "responsible"?
First one has to be sentient.

Newsom?
He's angling to become president, and promulgate upon America what he has done to California.

And once they're both gone?
The replacements will be WORSE.
Look at what happened in Chicago...

[Free Vulcan]

You voted for it, you eat it.