The increase has put the city's per capita homeless rate higher than neighboring San Francisco and Berkeley.... The president of the Oakland City Council in the San Francisco Bay Area is proposing bringing a cruise ship to the city's port to house up to 1, 000 homeless people.... In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Federal Emergency Management Agency chartered three luxury cruise liners to provide housing for up to 8, 000 people that were left homeless after the storm....