whose name is byword for crime and urban decay
Shocking footage has emerged showing a gigantic 'shantytown' that has sprung up in Oakland, as the California city's slide into crime-ravaged squalor continues.
Michael Oxford, the host of CaliBased, posted a video on May 31 of massive temporary houses built along service roads that open up into main roads in Hooverville, Oakland.
The footage showed trash strewn around scores of houses that were built of wood, tarp and other discarded materials.
Particularly shocking was just how large the 'shantytown' is, with a lengthy stretch of road in the Bay Area city covered with the makeshift dwellings.
Oxford could be heard calling the area a 'shantytown' that is 'absolutely mindboggling,' as he remarked how 'insane it is that [city officials] allow this.'
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I have a cousin that moved from NYC to San Francisco. He told me he likes the weather out west better. Haven't heard from him in a while so no idea how he is doing.
His brother in Illinois had a single bypass and then a stroke and I heard he is in a wheelchair now. He wasn't making the kind of money I was on Illinois State highways and driving trucks so no idea how much SSD he gets from Social Security.
People are turning their detached garages into efficiency apartments since housing in California is so expensive.
I even heard of a bus driver who is living in his van, and he makes $35,000/yr. He uses porta potties and public showers and cooks in his van. ;)
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