People living in a neighborhood just north of uptown Oakland say they're fed up with the increased crime associated with a nearby homeless encampment.
OAKLAND -- People living in a neighborhood just north of uptown Oakland say they're fed up with increased crime associated with a nearby homeless encampment.About 20 people live in RVs, cars and tents under the freeway overpass at 29th Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Way and Telegraph Avenue.Neighbors say that, around August, they started seeing more stolen and stripped cars left on the street near the encampment.'I have seen an increase in stolen vehicles.
A thief sawed off its catalytic converter.'And we found someone sleeping in it. The alarm went off early -- early in the morning and my husband came down and found out someone was sleeping in his car,' Nikki said.Fred Strayhorn has lived at the encampment for a year and a half. He says the people who dump cars and cause problems are outsiders who don't live at the encampment.'We over here trying to cause no trouble and to just live and let live.
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