Please stop wasting city funds on making the lives of people that are experiencing homelessness worse.

Buzz I hope they don't return, but they usually do. Oakland need to start doing something, this is a health issue for all of Oakland. None of the homeless can be healthy living in that crap and people who live near it have to breathe it. The city needs to get with it and start enforcing some laws. Oakland is allowing and encouraging illegal behavior. Excuses need to stop. Public sidewalks are not for camping, nor are the parks, businesses or residential areas.

What if instead of spending millions on kicking them out, we started building housing for them?

RyanPrice248 - then what spend more money upkeeping the housing for them? What if we just cut funds for schools, police and other public spending (maybe use the bike coalition funding) and just spend it on homeless. Why not open your front yard... or 466 Water Street

Maybe Ryan could win the powerball 400 million jackpot and donate some to the housing project. I probably would, but than again Ryan says I have no compassion.

Not sure who this Ryan is.. but he tried closing my other ticket.

I saw that. He's probably an advocate for the homeless or he doesn't live near an encampment. If advocates really wanted to help they'd quit with the excuses and give tough love. U don't feed their habits by issuing needles and tents and allow them to destroy the city because they're homeless. That's insane.

Ryan, most of the homeless in oakland need mental help, that's the issue that needs to be dealt with first, than a home if that's what they want. If they did get housing , at whose expense. Who pays for the bills, the property tax, the upkeep. There are plenty of run down buildings in the city that could he fixed up as housing for the homeless, sort of a habitat for humanity project. Oakland is a failure to the homeless, but just because they are homeless, does not give them the right to trash the city. That's the part I'm not compassionate about. Maybe u can invite them to your neighborhood. Its so easy to give the housing issue as the excuse, people need to look at the whole picture.

Here you go Ryan: There was another ticket put in yesterday by another user. A dead puppy on the off ramp of across from Castro and 9th. I agreed with the user, I just drove past it on my way home - its the same puppy the homeless guy that currently lives under the underpass owned. He used it to beg for money on the 12th Street onramp. It still has its blue harness on. I remember it well, because it was solid black with a blue nylon harness.

The homeless guy will not even remove it? He just used it to get more cash.. from people stopped at the stop light.

Since your such a fan .. do me a favor and pick the puppy up and give it a good grave. Because it deserves much more than your homeless person you support.

Wow