Oakland would crack down on homeless encampments that involve vehicles or are located on sidewalks under a proposal introduced today by District 7 Councilmember Ken Houston.
Houston wants to significantly change Oakland’s Encampment Management Policy, the city’s foundational homeless camp law passed in 2020. The policy prohibits camps in most parts of the city, but declares some locations and circumstances to be higher priority than others for removal or cleaning. In most cases, the city must provide several days of advance notice before it closes a camp.
Most details are not yet available, but Houston and his staff shared some at Thursday’s meeting of the council’s Rules and Legislation Committee…