Oakland real estate developer's controversial cash stunt to clear homeless camp backfires [View all]
Developer Gene Gorelik, of the Oakland Redevelopment Group, stood on a boom lift holding a bullhorn announcing, "Free money! Free money!" and dropping dollar bills over a homeless encampment in Oakland, California, Friday morning. Wearing an elf costume, Gorelik offered residents $1,000 each to move, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
"This is yet another prime example of Bay Area wealth disparities coming to a head in a truly flabbergasting, dehumanizing fashion:
Oakland real estate developer plans on shooting dollar bills over a homeless encampment in hopes of getting them to leave," Guardian reporter Vivian Ho wrote upon witnessing the spectacle.
Residents of the encampment are shown on video posted to social media, shouted, "F--- you, Gene," in response.
By the end of Gorelick's "offer," no one had accepted any of the cash he had offered those at the homeless encampment, Ho reported.
Ahead of Gorelik's Friday morning crusade, homeless activists rallied online and encouraged people to come together.
"Notorious local slumlord and Trump supporter Gene Gorelik is rallying support to 'save Home Depot' and bully the curbside community at E. 8th Street and Alameda Ave.," a Facebook invitation to an event titled "Operation Support Curbside Community" read. "We are asking the community to stand together to protect our curbside communities against hate, xenophobia and anti-homeless behavior."
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