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.”

  • Manmoth@lemmy.ml
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    9 小时前

    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