Shocking images have been released showing a massive slum that has sprung up in Oakland, as the California city descends into crime-ridden poverty.
CaliBased host Michael Oxford posted a video on May 31 showing huge temporary homes being built along service roads that open onto main roads in Hooverville, Oakland.
The images showed trash strewn around homes made from discarded wood, tarpaulins and other materials.
What is particularly shocking is the size of the slum, with much of the road in the Bay Area city covered in makeshift housing.
Oxford could be heard calling the area a “slum” which is “absolutely mind-boggling,” as he remarked how it was “insane that (city officials) would allow this.”
CaliBased host Michael Oxford posted a video on May 31 showing huge temporary homes being built along service roads that open onto the main roads in the last Hooverville, Oakland, California.
He captioned the video: “Parts of Oakland are worse than a third world country. They simply allow people to live in absolute misery wherever they want.
“It looks like Hooverville during the Great Depression.” Welcome to Gavinville, Oakland.
Tom Wolf, a former homeless man turned heroin and fentanyl addict from San Francisco, also shared the same video and said: “Worse than any third world slum. Do you know how we got here? Drugs.’
Earlier this month, city administrators were forced to remove traffic lights from a busy intersection and replace them with stop signs after the electrical boxes that controlled the traffic signals were tampered with. several times and that copper was stolen there.
The images showed trash collected around homes made from discarded wood, tarpaulins and other materials.
Oxford could be heard calling the area a “slum” which is “absolutely mind-boggling” and how it is “insane that they would allow this”.
Local residents and those who own businesses in the area say the traffic light problem stems from the nearby homeless encampment, which has grown over the years.
The owner of an auto repair shop on the corner of the intersection, Tam Le, said the city was signaling that it was “abandoning us” by putting up stop signs.
This is the latest in a series of copper thefts in California.
Videos have also been released showing thieves ransacking Tesla charging stations for the meta in Mya.
The city of Oakland recently removed traffic lights from a busy intersection and replaced them with stop signs.
For months, the traffic lights malfunctioned. They would either flash red or go out completely, causing confusing and dangerous driving conditions in the area – some blame the occupants of a very nearby homeless encampment.
For months, the traffic lights malfunctioned. They would either flash red or turn off completely, creating confusing and dangerous driving conditions in the area.
“The city has tried to fix the traffic lights at least a few times. But once they fix it, normally in a week or so, it will disappear again,” Le said, according to CBS News.
The real problem, he says, is homeless people stealing electricity from the city’s electrical boxes and copper from the traffic lights themselves.
In January, groups of homeless people were discovered living in engineered caves dug into the banks of a river, 20 feet below street level.
The groups were removed from eight caves along the Tuolumne River in Modesto and emptied of their belongings, furniture and 7,600 pounds of trash, filling two trucks and a trailer.
The caves were difficult to access and police were unsure how they managed to put so much stuff in them.
Some caves were fully equipped with a chair, clothes and blankets.
Some caves were decorated with murals, had broken floor tiles, and one even had a makeshift fireplace with a chimney.
The Modesto Police Department said, “This particular area is plagued by vagrancy and illegal camps, which caused concern because these camps were actually caves dug into the banks of the river.
The community living in the caves had dug makeshift stairs into the hill leading up to them. Some caves were once fully equipped with bedding, personal belongings, food, a makeshift fireplace, but also drugs and weapons, according to Rojas.
Officials have not yet commented on the Oxford video.
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