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.”

  • teagrrl@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    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 laborer slave. 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.