we’ve spent months asking the city for more support, especially access to dumpsters so communities can actually deal with the scale of illegal dumping across oakland. on paper, each councilmember and the mayor have 12 dumpsters allocated for community use. the resources are supposed to exist.
but according to the Oakland City Auditor, 78 of those dumpsters went unused and not made accessible, just sitting there while neighborhoods continued dealing with growing piles of trash.
at the same time, we (urban compassion project) spent $135,000 in community-raised funds last year on dumpsters and disposal just to keep up with demand and get through cleanups the city wasn’t supporting in a timely way.
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