LoL. Maybe take your kids to the food kitchen across the street to help these people instead for calling out to have their homes and things trashed. Maybe u are invading their neighborhood?

Please take pictures

There is a sit, lie law. This is a public sidewalk not a campground. They defecate on the sidewalks, would u walk your kids by it?

10 percent of households have kids, thus using the "my kids" rationale to excuse racism and violence toward those with limited resources is overdone. Those without houses do well to establish their place. In this place, they have been for decades. As for your question, yes. Its a great opportunity for kids to develop humaneness as we are the same as "them". The city will continue brushing them off as trash on the street until our silence recognizes we are all heading toward that same path. Isnt that why they scare u?

6500 homeless in Alameda County. 30% of 3000 homeless in Oakland are children; at least 1000 children; 41% of homeless qualify for an "elderly discount"; 7% mentally ill, 18% substance use and 10% long term homelessness. in alameda county, there are 400 total shelter beds for 6500 people. No shelter beds for 6000, No sidewalks, No Parks, No Streets, No Public Areas, No RV's. The leading causes of homeless are loss of job, loss of significant other with over 80% homeless are short termers. Most of the children are with a single mother with 2 children. its annoying to read about, but our silence or complacency is permitting this; it isn't a lack of resources, but a lack of voice and inappropriate post-tax allocation of resources (gov't) which are the problem in the short term. for the long term, it is the pretax allocations of resources (amount system gives each for their contribution).

They are breaking the law first of all. Public sidewalk that the public can't use. A person in a wheelchair or women with a stroller have to go in the street to get around it. Really? The city needs to find a spot for these encampments, not keep letting them break the law. The sit, lie law is there, enforce it. They don't have to block the whole sidewalk that's the problem. They need to keep a pathway open for the public

Homelessness is a terrible issue and the city is taking the easy way out by letting them be. Not only this is an issue for residents (not being able to use sidewalks, urination, drugs etc) but mostly, how is it OK to completely dismiss people who live on the street and think providing them with a tent is a decent "solution?" And when people say that "people need to live somewhere, and let them be on the sidewalk" this is encouraging the City not to do anything. Why would they bother if we are all okay with the current state of our streets and neighborhoods? The more we fight this pretending "solution" the more the City will be forced to take measures that aren't to confine people in tents under a freeway.