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Jan. 25, 2025--It’s official! The number of homeless people in Oakland has exceeded the housed population for the first time in the city’s history. According to the latest figures from the Oakland Bureau of Homelessness, there were 356,712 homeless people in the city, and only 97 housed people.

Here’s an email to me from Keith S. Schuerholz, the Parking Services & Transportation Liaison at the Oakland Department of Transportation. “The city's current policy is not to tow vehicles in which people are living in as their homes.” So now we know: another law abrogated by the wokes who run this town.

I originally published this on my old blog on May 11, 2018, when Pamela Price ran for District Attorney for the first time. (She lost.) I’m republishing it again today. Every word I said, every warning I issued, has proved true. Read on.

They’re at it again, the police defunders. This time, they want to slash OPD’s budget by $20 million. And what would they do with the money? Give it to Oakland’s Department of Transportation (OAKdot), to “spend on upgrades to road safety.”