The city council president of Oakland, California, has floated putting the city’s expanding homeless population on a cruise ship.
Council President Rebecca Kaplan noted that a cruise ship could house as many as 1,000 homeless. She recommended that the city looks into buying a cruise ship to house the homeless as a quick way to have several rooms available while the city considers permanent solutions to the affordable housing crisis in Oakland, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
“It could be a great way to house a lot of people quickly,” Kaplan explained. “Cruise ships have been used for emergency housing after natural disasters and for extra housing for things like Olympics.”
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11 comments:
Bring back Alms houses
100 politicians in Oakland take 10 people in. Probably solved. Cost tax payers nothing
Ridiculous, no thought whatsoever put into that. Why not put them up in hotel? Taxpayer funded.
The same thing was done with prison populations for at least 300 years in Europe.
Sounds good then sail them into the Bermuda Triangle end of the problem!
So the politicians were sitting around having a cocktail and one of them stood up and said I have a brilliant idea.
Stage two set them adrift and sink them.
I want to be homeless! I never could afford a cruise! Please pick meeeeeee!!!!!
Northwest Woodsman: Tremendous idea! I fully support it but only if it remains at least ten nautical miles off the coast of Haiti .
Sounds like an AOC brilliant idea.
These are people that don't bathe and defecate on sidewalks in public. Can't imagine what the interior of that cruise ship would smell like after housing them. The stench would be overwhelming. They would have to take if offshore and sink it after a year or less. It would become a rancid health bio hazard...a toxic waste dump.
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