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| Oakland considers housing the homeless on a cruise ship |
| 2019-12-13 |
| [FoxNews] During a city council meeting on Tuesday, Oakland City Council President Rebecca Kaplan broached the idea of using a cruise ship to house up to 1,000 homeless people, suggesting a ship be brought to the Port of Oakland as the region deals with skyrocketing costs of living and a shortage of affordable housing. Homelessness has spiked in Oakland, with a 47 percent jump in two years — one of the largest surges of any California city, according to a one-night street count released in July. The count, which used federal guidelines, showed Oakland had 4,017 homeless people, up from 2,761 in 2017. The increase has put the city's per capita homeless rate higher than neighboring San Francisco and Berkeley. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #27 You could abandon the cruise ship idea and house them in a high rise and call the housing project Grenfell Tower Two. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2019-12-13 21:10 |
| #26 Dock it in Sausalito,with the rest of the mariner trash. |
| Posted by: bbrewer126 2019-12-13 20:52 |
| #25 Is this a form of "Greyhound therapy?" |
| Posted by: James 2019-12-13 20:36 |
| #24 FEMA camps |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2019-12-13 17:39 |
| #23 Of course, the cruise guests would be entitled to vote multiple times, even tho their "address" was not in any voting district. With a carton of cigarettes or a gallon of tokay for each vote cast... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-13 15:50 |
| #22 The Flying Taxbase |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-13 15:22 |
| #21 Regular Joe, exactly the thought I had.☺ |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-13 15:06 |
| #20 Fire on that cruise ship and the cities homeless problem is gone and the politicians problems have only just begun. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-12-13 14:34 |
| #19 Bill Burr has the right idea about cruise ships |
| Posted by: Regular joe 2019-12-13 14:23 |
| #18 Wouldn't a tent city out in the boondocks be cheaper and easier to maintain? Surround it by concertina wire. Sort the inmates according to their particular cases. Some will be mentally ill, others will be drug addicts or alcoholics and others will be lazy, no-good bums. Keep them incarcerated as long as the law allows and release them with a warning that repeated offenses will result in longer periods of incarceration. How could that be worse or more expensive than letting them die on the streets? But, yes, I know that would make too much sense for a Democrat to understand. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-12-13 12:56 |
| #17 (city of) Oakland-Raiders |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-13 12:18 |
| #16 Raiders of the Till |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-13 12:17 |
| #15 #13 The point is "out of sight, out of mind" + difficult to leave. As to upkeep, who told you it'll be high standard? Google imprisonment on hulks. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-12-13 11:27 |
| #14 What idiot thought this would be cheaper than refurbishing a dilapidated building or two should be tarred and feathered. via LA Times: With the costs of building housing on the rise, Los Angeles City Controller Ron Galperin is recommending that some projects be reevaluated to see if their budgets can be cut to use less of the city’s $1.2-billion homeless housing bond. In an audit that will be released Tuesday, Galperin found that more than 1,000 units of housing approved for funding through Proposition HHH could top $600,000 apiece. Ark of the Lost Raiders, damn fine sir. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2019-12-13 11:23 |
| #13 I read somewhere that Oakland has fascilites for container ships, not cruise ships, so this is ignorant nonsense. Also ships are famously expensive to upkeep. What idiot thought this would be cheaper than refurbishing a dilapidated building or two should be tarred and feathered. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-12-13 10:35 |
| #12 Indiana Jones and the Cruise Ship of Doom |
| Posted by: Warthog 2019-12-13 09:45 |
| #11 Ark of the Lost Raiders |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-13 09:02 |
| #10 Call them raiders not homeless. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-12-13 08:59 |
| #9 Or they could call it Raft of the Medusa |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-13 07:49 |
| #8 if you liked poop on the sidewalks, you're gonna love a shipload of Norovirus! |
| Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 2019-12-13 07:46 |
| #7 During the Terror of the French Revolution, the guillotines weren't fast enough. So they crowded old hulks with many on the lists and sunk them. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-12-13 07:03 |
| #6 And letting it slowly drift... away. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2019-12-13 06:56 |
| #5 Socialist concentration camp. |
| Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 2019-12-13 01:39 |
| #4 Oh boy, can't wait till the druggies set fire to the ship. |
| Posted by: Gomez Flugum6633 2019-12-13 01:29 |
| #3 Wow, talk about going old school, the Dem's wanna bring back storing people on hulks. Hard to escape from, full of disease and death. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2019-12-13 01:04 |
| #2 ^ front-runner for Snark o' the Day |
| Posted by: Lex 2019-12-13 00:23 |
| #1 They can call it Ghost Ship II |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-12-13 00:18 |