The old proverb says that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure, but in one city in the San Francisco Bay Area, many people’s illegal trash has become over a dozen mini shelters for the homeless. Nearly half of the 6,215 homeless people in Alameda County reside in Oakland, where many wander the streets following incarceration,
Illegal Trash Becomes Shelter For Calif. Homeless
An Oakland, Calif., artist uses trash illegally dumped on the city’s streets to make mini mobile homes for the city’s homeless, effectively addressing two problems at once.