Bay Area city to pay homeless to clean up their encampments in controversial pilot
Metro Bay Area city to pay homeless to clean up their encampments in controversial pilot By Titus Wu Published July 23, 2026, 4:23 p.m. Add The California Post on Google A Bay Area city plans to embark on a novel way to tidy up homeless encampments as California desperately tries to tackle its homelessness crisis — by paying the homeless to clean up after themselves. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee teased to ABC7 that she will announce a pilot program in which unhoused residents would be paid to clean areas around encampments, similar to a program in Oregon.
- ▪Metro Bay Area city to pay homeless to clean up their encampments in controversial pilot By Titus Wu Published July 23, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google A Bay Area city plans to embark on a novel way to tidy up homeless encampments as California desperately tries to tackle its homelessness crisis — by paying the homeless to clean up after themselves.
- ▪Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee teased to ABC7 that she will announce a pilot program in which unhoused residents would be paid to clean areas around encampments, similar to a program in Oregon.
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