URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
(DC Pundit) – Picture this: you have just spent years preparing your child for college. You load the car, make the drive, and pull up to the university housing, only to find rows of tents, mountains of trash, and a sprawling homeless encampment directly behind where your kid is going to be living for the next year.
That is exactly what happened to one California mother when she dropped her son off at UC Berkeley, and she made sure the world knew about it.
TV reporter and mom Lyanne Melendez pulled out her phone and documented what she found along the 1150 block of Harrison Street, near student housing and businesses frequented by students, less than three miles from the university’s main campus. She then posted the video directly to X, tagging the city and the university.
“I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments. Shame on @CityofBerkeley @CityofAlbanyCA @UCBerkeleyNews,” Melendez wrote.
I just dropped my son off at @UCBerkeley housing and as we were approaching we saw this behind his apartments. Shame on @CityofBerkeley @CityofAlbanyCA @UCBerkeleyNews pic.twitter.com/sxyhkez5l4
— Lyanne Melendez (@LyanneMelendez) August 19, 2026
The California Post visited the area and confirmed what the video showed, numerous tents and makeshift shelters packed closely together near a Tesla service facility, surrounded by significant amounts of personal belongings and debris. Some areas had so little open space that pedestrians had difficulty passing through. Tarps and materials were spread throughout the encampment in every direction.
Out-of-state tuition at UC Berkeley runs approximately $50,000 per year with room and board. Fifty thousand dollars a year, and the university cannot be bothered to ensure that students arriving for their first day of college are not greeted by a scene that looks like a third-world disaster zone.
Berkeley is no stranger to this problem. The city has been engaged in a long-running legal battle over homeless encampments, including a dispute specifically involving the intersection of Harrison Street and Eighth Street, the very area where Melendez filmed her video. The encampment has been a known issue. The city and university have simply chosen not to resolve it.
This is what decades of progressive governance produces. California has poured billions of dollars into homelessness programs. With what results to show for it? Meanwhile, universities like Berkeley continue raising tuition, expanding their administrative bureaucracies, and promoting radical left-wing ideology, while parents paying $50,000 a year drop their children off next to tent cities.
College enrollment is declining nationally as more Americans question whether the return on investment justifies the cost. UC Berkeley is making that question very easy to answer.
URGENT: CLICK TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST THE LEFT!
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