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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: theking on May 09, 2023, 06:30:42 PM
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..in Marin County (Sausalito to be exact) and many folks are just priced out:
Two-mile homeless camp takes over in California’s posh Marin County — and tax dollars help fund it
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A two-mile strip of road in posh Marin County, California – which George Lucas, Tony Bennett and Robin Williams have all called home – has been overrun by a vagrant camp that has brought drugs and devastation to the area.
Binford Road in the city of Novato has devolved into a makeshift neighborhood of “tweakers” with hordes of people living apparently rent-free in a shabby collection of broken-down RVs and trailers parked at the side of the street.
The Post counted 71 vehicles during a recent visit, where locals blamed local authorities for encouraging the encampment in the area — and where homes cost a $1.3 million median price.
Kathy, who has lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, said: “I can’t park and move into a city street. Why are they letting them do that?”
“It appears to us this is just the easy way out – and California is making it really easy for them and very hard on us, the people who live here.”
The camp has also proven to harbor crime. Authorities investigating a convicted sex offender who lived along Binford Road in March instead discovered the dead body of a man who had overdosed on fentanyl, according to a report from MarinLocalNews .com.