Is live in oakland to tell us what the city and b. A. R. T. Are doing about them. Laura . Reporter well, hi, ama. Oakland has been doing a lot to tackle homelessness. Theyve constructed a safe rv parking lot and those Community Cabin locations but there is an enormous problem that now includes the construction of whole buildings, structures, communities underneath the b. A. R. T. Tracks. The homeless are building their own homes. Underneath the b. A. R. T. Tracks in oakland. Like here along san leandro street near 81st avenue where at least a dozen wooden structures are you can it had right under the tracks, trains whizzing by at regular intervals. Structures that have taken awhile to build. It is a concern. The structures are a bigger concern. Theyre not a tent. Theyre not mobile. And as people build them up, its a whole new chapter of what were concerned about around danger associated with encamp muchmen mentes. Last year a man died inside a wooden structure after a fire near the b.
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