How Oakland California Got Ruined

They are unhappy with elected officials, but keep voting for them. Fools!

Weird how cities with so much homelessness, poverty and lack of jobs are also so expensive to live in

It's getting to a point in Oakland, CA where a junkie can no longer afford a cardboard box and a blue tarp. The good news, however, is they can still crap on the streets for free.

How can home prices be that high in a place nobody wants to live in?

Oakland always was GANG RAN.

Who would have thought endlessly giving to the homeless and refusing to charge criminals would promote more crime and homelessness? Oakland's only solution is to continually increase tax and throw more money at the problem. No one to blame but the voters themselves.

How’s is it that the city is 54 million in debt but pay one basketball player that amount a year?

To be fair, stealing in SF is not counted as a crime if under $945 in value is stolen.

I was born and raised in Oakland in the 50s and 60s. The city was so unsafe that my parents had to keep moving us further and further away. By 1990, it got so bad, my parents, my wife's parents and my wife and I, had to pack up and move 150 miles north.🥴

Come on. This city has been a death trap for decades. Have avoided this city since the 60s

On a trip to the USA, we took BART from SF to Oakland to collect or camper van to travel USA by road. Oakland was total dump if i've ever seen one. Not as bad as say Kensington but up there. The station we left BART on had gunshots trough the info screens. While riding on BART you could see the trash, burned out vehicules, burnt out homes and entire neighborhoods where people seem to collect trash both in their backyards and on their front door. There was entire streets with tent camps and people living out of their cars. Something you'll never see here.

honestly in the late 80's early 90's there were blocks and blocks of streets you couldnt drive down without an armored car and assault weapons....it got cleaned up for a while but now it's back but still nothing like it was back then. recently i accidentally took the wrong exit and found intersections destroyed by "sideshows" (done with cars) rubble and detritus everywhere, entire buildings covered up to the 3rd floor with graffitti, and entire areas filled with homeless campers all just ONE block from upscale condos and highspeed freeways...i cant imagine living in that hell zone. i was literally terrified.

The only reason for the drop in crime is because they don't report it any more or prosecute crime like they should be. So things only get worse.

Every sports team is leaving Oakland the Raiders, Warriors and soon the A's!

Ton of work in this video. Great Job!

Blaming Oakland's homelessness issue solely on the lack of affordable housing is wild. I'm in California and can tell you exactly what happened. The sharp increase in homelessness directly coincided with the implementation of prop 47 in 2014, which decriminalized drug use and theft in the state. It made a bad problem even worse in Oakland, in particular. Add to that the 9th circuit court preventing cities and governments from removing homeless camps from public spaces like sidewalks, parks, and other undesignated camping areas. With drug abuse and vagrancy essentially decriminalized, users had no incentive to get on rehab programs or seek out other housing solutions. Instead of getting treatment, people can now spiral out of control with no intervention. This policy and attitude of enablement is chronic in the Bay area, especially, and is pervasive across most of California now. However, you see the worst of it concentrated in cities where these insane ideas originated, like SF, Oakland, Sacramento, and LA. You can force cities and counties to zone all of the "affordable housing" you can squeeze in and it still won't solve the homeless issue. It will however spread urban blight to the suburbs and the rural counties and decrease quality of life across the board. If they truly cared about fixing homelessness, they'd tackle the problem at it's root. They won't.

In a city of + $600,000 homes there should be plenty of property tax income. I call insane corruption where has the money gone?!?

I lived in Oakland for several years, but in 2018 I couldn't take living there anymore! I'm a retired police officer from LAPD Los Angeles Police Department, and crime had rapidly increased dramatically in Oakland to the point I stopped going anywhere at night, I tried my best to have someone with me when I went places there even in daylight hours for extra safety. I was pretty much a prisoner in my own house not to mention I had also been a victim of a couple of property crimes in the last two years I lived there! I had my car broken into twice, someone broke into my garage and I had several pieces of mail stolen right from my mailbox which included a couple of retirement checks from the State of California! FINALLY I HAD ENOUGH! Within a 60 day period, I sold my house and moved to the Philippines where I've lived full time since I arrived in July 2018 and I've never been back to the US let alone to Oakland! In the nearly 6 years since moving to the Philippines, I've never ever felt uncomfortable or frightened, and I've not experienced any crime to myself or to my property! Best decision I've ever made in my life moving from Oakland to the Philippines 🇵🇭 ❤ Oakland used to be a nice place to live and for many years I never had any problems until 2014 came along and it just kept getting worse and worse! I was lucky and blessed that I was able to move from there, but unfortunately I know there are many people living there that don't necessarily have the option or ability to leave! 😢😢

I worked in Oakland for 7 years starting in 1989, it’s a shit hole now , elected officials are to blame

Whoah 😮I lived in Berkeley and Oakland in the mid to late 90s….There were definitely sketchy areas but also areas that were pretty enjoyable. I guess I was lucky that my girlfriend and I were able to avoid problems with crime. Downtown back then at city center was still trying to rebound from the Loma Prieta quake. But there were descent restaurants and jazz clubs at Jack London Square. And the neighborhoods in the hills that burned in 91 were just starting to get rebuilt. I had mostly good times then. Lived near Lake Merritt and walked to work. Sad to hear my former home is not doing well.