Activist declares Oakland the ‘land of milk and fentanyl’ due to homelessness
Luke Gentile
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Oakland has become overrun with drug markets, narcotics, theft, and homelessness, turning it into the land of “milk and fentanyl,” according to one neighborhood activist.
“Oakland and San Francisco have become the promised land of milk and fentanyl, and people are coming here,” Neighbors Together Oakland founder Seneca Scott said, according to a report.
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“People who are homeless in Oakland now typically are not from here. They’re drug tourists.”
One particularly bad area is “Fentanyl Island,” a West Oakland area marked with burned-out cars and open-air drug sales.
“They’re coming here for the safe and easy access to their drug of choice and the ability to also steal to support those habits because there’s no rule of law,” Scott said.
From 2015 to 2022, the population of homeless residents grew to 5,000 in Oakland, the report noted.
In Alameda County, the greater Oakland area, the homeless population grew to 9,700.
“Our homeless crisis has helped deteriorate our property value,” according to Scott.
“If you combine that with the eviction moratorium and other government policies, we have a situation now where the property values of people are plummeting.”
RVs lined the streets around one property manager’s building, causing her potential tenants to stay away, and fires in encampments have resulted in deaths, the report noted.
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“A big part of Oakland’s homeless crisis are open-air drug markets and our permissiveness of RV parking and basically anything goes for selling drugs,” Scott said.
“It’s created unlivable situations.”