Protesters pitched tents outside Oakland City Hall Tuesday morning in solidarity with residents recently forced out of the Wood Street homeless encampment.
The activists are demanding an end to the red tape that is keeping unhoused people on the run throughout the city.The Wood Street encampment was home to more than 300 unhoused people, with some living there for up to eight years. It caused its share of problems, including a couple of serious fires. Last month, the city moved in and started clearing out the property owned by Caltrans.
"The situation is beyond desperate in the streets of Oakland. The 300+ people that lived in just the Wood Street encampment have now been dispersed and displaced all throughout West Oakland and beyond," said supporter Xochitl Bernadette Moreno."We need to actually allocate land so that people can have a place to go, a place to call their own."
The proposal is to devote eight acres to an established camp with garbage pickup, sanitation facilities and a place for supportive services to operate. But the protesters are frustrated by the bureaucratic roadblocks they're getting from Oakland city officials.
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