joining us. i m ken wayne and i m vicki liviakis in for pam moore tonight, oakland mayor libby shaft deliver her state of the city address tonight at the oakland museum of california. her main focus combating homelessness and keeping residents in the city. our first dan thorn live for us in open tonight, he joins us now with more dan. well vicki the state of the city s theme this year was belonging in oakland, the mayor weaving that idea into homelessness and housing. crime and safer streets and also retaining the culture in oakland, the mayor touting improvements such as the amount of people being moved from homelessness to housing as well as doubling the shelter capacity in the city to more than 1700 dead, so former homeless man we moved in oakland s cabin community and is now living in his own place in working in social media was used as one example of the city success in fighting homelessness. i believe in homelessness is caused by 4 things. first a failure in our menta
i believe in homelessness is caused by 4 things. first a failure in our mental health and drug addiction second a housing shortage. income inequality and 4th and most importantly structural racism. the mayor says nearly 900 people have been moved from the streets to housing over the last year that plan is seen out double the number this year, however, as you see here the mayor did face some opposition or plans outside of her speech protesters were calling for a complete stop to all addictions within the city of oakland, but the mayor says the city should also be seeing an improvement to streets and roads that s a million plan to pave over 100 miles of roads and streets here in the city and that would be happening over the next 3 years in the city is also looking to make some vast improvements and fixes to issue out here in terms of deadly pedestrian accidents that s the latest here live in oakland dan thorn. kron 4 thank you and now to a developing story we ve been followin
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