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.”
I still think he is planning on running in the Republican presidential primary in 2028.
I support making Gavin Newsom homeless and throwing away all his possessions like cops do when they raid encampments. After a couple of raids we arrest him for his crime of “no house” and put him in the U.S. prison system to be exploited as a prison
laborerslave. When he has exhausted his usefulness we can dump him off with no support system whatsoever where he can languish til the end of his days.Hey asshole, why don’t you try building places for them to live.
Liberals gotta liberal
vOtE bLuE nO mAtTeR wHo
Gruesome Newsom is quite the heir apparent (hair apparent?) to Genocide Joe’s legacy.
Even if, just for the sake of argument, you assume that these people are living in tents on the streets just because they don’t feel like finding housing, which is already an absolutely massive assumption that I don’t for one instant actually describes reality, there’s still this…
If you believe that laws forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath, or any such, are necessary to the welfare of your community, that is your right and I do not ask you to surrender your beliefs or give up your efforts to put over such laws. But remember that such laws are, at most, a preliminary step in doing away with the evils they indict. Moral evils can never be solved by anything as easy as passing laws alone. If you aid in passing such laws without bothering to follow through by digging in to the involved questions of sociology, economics, and psychology which underlie the causes of the evils you are gunning for, you will not only fail to correct the evils you sought to prohibit but will create a dozen new evils as well.
—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
You can’t just make a problem go away by making it illegal, you’ve got to address the root causes.
They’re not trying to make the problem go away. They’re planning to arrest the homeless to use for prison labor.
Yeeeeaaah, go thirteenth amendment!!!
America, Land of the Free, as long as you could pay for it. I fucking love it here don’t you.
To be fair, the articles I’ve read about this have also indicated he wants to allocate three billion dollars to address homelessness, and that’s actually a good thing, as the current policy of rampant vagrancy addressed by policing and imprisonment is not only ineffective, but vastly more costly.
But even so, it’s still a ghoulish thing to say, and buckle up, because this motherfucker’s going to be the next Democratic candidate for president.
the articles I’ve read about this have also indicated he wants to allocate three billion dollars to address homelessness
It will be 3 billion for hostile architecture and police crackdowns probably.
Sadly, history would suggest that’s eventually what happens. Democrats, for all their lofty rhetoric, love elevating the police as a militarized, licensed gang.
Yeah. Actually housing everyone needing it (and not in a shelter or concentration camp) would even cost less than the huge amount of hostile architecture and funding police harrasment*, cruelty is the point, and it is firmly in capitalist logic because this system need the visibly heavily opressed pariah class to discipline workers.
*It’s not some nebulous “already spend on police” cathegory as some people claim every time the topic surfaces. Manpower, supplies and time used by police for that are clearly calculable.
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 are those states doing?
I’m gonna guess "one way bus ticket to California "
Well that is the cost of subsidizing and creating an entirely novel legal framework for vagrancy, shoplifting etc More people leave California than any other state in the country every year. In other words, California sucks. It’s covered in human excrement and is riddled with crime
Yeah it’s definitely cultural and not at all to do with cost of living making it uninhabitable
California isn’t the place to be if you are looking for an affordable lifestyle. If you want that you’re better off literally anywhere else in the country. Mississippi, Missouri, West Virginia etc. California/Oregon have so many homeless not because locals are somehow priced out but because both states famously attract vagrants. You can do pretty much whatever you want with no consequences and get handouts.
You definitely sound like someone who lives in and knows about California lmao
Smdh
