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If only the city would. It's time to get things done with these encampments. These people buy dope and sell dope and use dope, but the city needs to face the real truth and start coming up with solutions before a tragedy happens.

They cannot shut them down or the advocates will sue the city. The City of Oakland if they had the guts would come up with a plan with a large lot to house them with toilets, water ect. Most of these so called homeless not suitable for housing because of RULES no drug, no booze, no destructive behavior. There are between 6 to 7 thousand street people in Oakland for a reason a lot of free stuff and lots of drugs and alcohol and no rules to follow ever.

I think the city should power the area every monday and thursday and eventually they'll get tired of moving all their trash and relocate to SF.

If advocates cared so much for the homeless they'd be making a place for them like Seattle, instead of letting them do as they please. How bout they getting sued for letting the homeless make dangerous, unsanitary, drug issued encampments that the rest of us have to put up with. These advocates don't even supply a way for them to dispose of syringes and that is a lawsuit waiting to happen.