Oakland's homeless stats soar as pressure grows from residents, businesses for a solution

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This is the latest report in an ongoing series by Fox News on the severe homelessness crisis West Coast cities are enduring due to rampant drug addiction, skyrocketing housing prices, mental illness and, in many cases, misguided governmental policies.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Freddie lives in a hole in Oakland. The middle-aged, longtime heroin addict has no running water, electricity or a bathroom. He does have six pigeons and a feral cat that keep guard over his belongings and hiss at strangers who get too close. He sleeps on a bed of trash and his open-air home is a hodgepodge of reminders that Freddie is not OK. He spends most days cleaning up the sidewalk opposite his home. On days when the drugs really kick in, he can be seen sweeping dirt from one side of a dirt lot to the other.

There are a lot of Freddies in Oakland — people who are down on their luck or pushed out of their homes and struggling with mental illness who find it easier to turn to drugs than face reality.

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San Francisco: Where It's OK to Crap in the Streets But They Arrest People for Eating on a BART Platform

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San Francisco Gets The Leader It Deserves

Meet District Attorney Chesa Boudin: Bill Ayers prodigy, Hugo Chávez aide, public urination advocate

Andrew Stiles

November 13, 2019

The biography of San Francisco's newly elected district attorney reads like a shallow parody authored by a right wing Andy Borowitz. Consider, for example, the following facts about Chesa Boudin, the 39-year-old attorney who narrowly won the race to become the city's top prosecutor:

He was raised by Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers after Boudin's parents were jailed for their role in an armed heist that left two police officers and a security guard dead.

One of his grandfathers was an attorney for Fidel Castro.

His great-great-uncle was a Marxist theoretician.

He earned two master's degrees while studying at Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.

Before enrolling at Yale Law School, he worked as translator for Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez.

He publicly praised Chávez in 2009 for the dictator's controversial campaign to abolish term limits.

He was endorsed by "civil rights activist" Shaun King, who is also a fan of domestic terrorism.

He has never prosecuted a case.

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Nov. 13 2019