Disturbing footage reveals a California community resembling a “shantytown” with makeshift houses made of wood and tarps in Oakland.
The video exposes unsanitary living conditions and the sudden emergence of dwellings obstructing service roads with litter and discarded materials strewn across the ground.
Michael Oxford, the CaliBased host, shared the video and was shocked by the condition of the locality.
The video was accompanied by his caption: “Parts of Oakland are worse than a third-world country. They just allow people to live in absolute squalor, wherever they choose. This looks like Hooverville during the great depression. Welcome to Oakland’s very own Gavinville.”
Individuals who have overcome addiction, such as Tom Wolf, have now posted the video and are describing the cluster of homes as “worse than any shanty in the third world.”
Wolf, a former user of fentanyl and heroin in recovery, states that the areas were notorious locations for drug activity.
Due to multiple incidents of tampering with electrical boxes in the Oakland area, city officials had to remove traffic lights at the intersection and install stop signs instead.
Residents and business owners in the area are unhappy with the makeshift homes and attribute the problem with the traffic lights to the presence of the homeless camp.
A resident in the vicinity commented that the replacement of the traffic lights indicated that the city had abandoned the area. According to a local resident named Tam Le, “The city did try to fix the traffic light at least a few times.”
He added, “But once they fixed it, normally within a week or so, it will go out again.” Reports emerged of homeless groups digging holes as deep as 20 feet below street level along the riverbanks.
These individuals were discovered residing in these excavated holes, with furniture and waste being removed from the Tuolumne River area. The Mirror had previously covered the presence of makeshift dwellings along the rivers in California.
The Modesto Police Department reported that a group of individuals had been residing in underground caves along the Tuolumne River in California until a recent raid evicted them.
