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.”
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.