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Offhand and off-color remarks don't make great government policies. That's why when Oakland, California's City Council President Rebecca Kaplan casually suggested that housing homeless folks on a cruise ship might be a good idea, people were rightfully perplexed. But now that "some folks with cruise ships" have reached out to Kaplan to collaborate on the ridiculous idea, people should be downright worried.
Oakland is experiencing one of the worst homelessness crises in the nation. Between 2017 and 2019, the city saw its homeless population double to 4,071 individuals. The budget for the next two years of homeless relief and affordable housing development is just over $87 million. Not one penny of this budget should go towards the impermanent, dangerous, and downright ridiculous idea of floating 1,000 homeless individuals into the Port of Oakland.
For starters, the Port of Oakland released an official statement insisting that the safety and security issues of such a proposal would make the project insupportable. And even if there were a place to dock this cruise ship, its living quarters would make terrible homes. These ships are designed with tiny living quarters in order to encourage cruise-goers to spend less time in their rooms and more time mingling about the ship.
It is admirable that Rebecca Kaplan wants to find solutions to Oakland's homelessness crisis. But this plan is ludicrous. The homeless community cannot simply be floated out of sight. They deserve structural solutions to help them thrive in their own city.
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