On May 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, demanded that cities throughout the state adopt anti-camping ordinances that would effectively ban public homelessness by requiring unhoused individuals to relocate every 72 hours.
While presented as a humanitarian effort to reduce homelessness, the new policy victimizes California’s growing unhoused population—approximately 187,000 people—by tying funding in Proposition 1 to local laws banning sleeping or camping on public land.
In his announcement, Newsom pushed local governments to adopt the draconian ordinances “without delay.”
The problem is that California is a destination for many homeless and it strains the system. As a state, CA cannot control who comes and goes and so can only control migration through deterrence.
The red states in the region are about to pull back on funding resources for the homeless and creating new homeless with the disaster economic policy. A massive pile-up of homeless in CA would not be a good outcome for anyone. State resources would be strained to breaking and without Federal assistance or an ability to control migration… That’s a big yikes.
And moving the homeless every 72 hours does what to fix these problems?
It does nothing. He should do what all the other states without a homelessness problem are doing.
What do those states do, coward? Lock people up for poverty?
They are clearly doing something that works better for the average person given the emigration rate. California won’t be able to keep these ‘programs’ going if their disatisfied tax base continues the already decade long exodus for greener pastures. California is disgusting and dangerous. People don’t like public defecation, open drug use, theft and violent crime. “The people” have spoken and are moving to Texas, Florida, Arizona, Nevada etc
What do you want to happen to the homeless people, then? If the thing the other states are doing is pushing homeless people to California, and you want California to push them elsewhere, where do they end up?
So no specifics? Just assuming they must be doing something
Cope
What does cope do for anyone? How is that made into a policy to help homeless people?
What are those states doing?
I’m gonna guess "one way bus ticket to California "
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Yeah it’s definitely cultural and not at all to do with cost of living making it uninhabitable
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You definitely sound like someone who lives in and knows about California lmao
Smdh