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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. 
Gene Gorelik is now on his bullhorn, announcing, “Free money! Free money!” Residents and community activists shout back, “Fuck you, Gene!”
If you want to put it in context, Gene is offering $2,000 to each person who leaves this encampment. Offering to shower $1,000 in dollar bills over the crowd. What is market rate for a studio in Oakland these days? Barely that per month.
Also, majority of people out here for Gene’s shenanigans are not encampment residents. Why? Some are at work. Some are asleep because they had night shifts.
Gene is packing up now. Says nobody accepted his offer within his self-imposed time limit.
For context, Gene is a major Trump supporter so a lot of his aesthetic is ‘Merica. His punchline for this event was “Make Oakland Great Again.”
Oakland activists banded together to not allow Gene to drive out. They told him he could walk out. Gene is trying to leave the cabin now with a can of mace.
And this right here is a Bay Area real estate developer getting shamed out of homeless encampment.
Anyways, read more here about an adult man who dressed like an elf and wore a "Make Oakland Great Again" hat and believes he can solve homelessness by literally throwing money at it theguardian.com/us-news/2019/j…
