'What I am saying is we need to put a lot more options on the table. If there’s a chance we can make it work, we should try.'
Published 8:25 PM EST Dec 11, 2019The violent wind storms typically aren’t a concern for the Oakland, California, City Council president's constituents, but a creative solution for housing the storm victims caught her eye.
City and state officials have made addressing the issue a priority, but solutions take time and shelter beds remain in short supply. With limited access to running water and toilets, it’s become both a humanitarian and public health emergency, classified as such at both at the city and state levels of government.“It is a human catastrophe,” Kaplan said, adding that the crisis should be approached like any other disaster. “It has to be all hands on deck.
“We say this is an emergency,” Kaplan said. “So, I thought, well, we have a natural-disaster level of crisis. Now I am in dialogue with people who can actually do something.” Former California Rep. Henry Waxman called the incident a “boondoggle” in a letter to Bush sent in 2006, highlighting that for the $240,000 it cost taxpayers to shelter each family the federal government could have built them permanent homes.
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