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 working poor don’t have neighborhoods, they have landlords.
That some classist BS that renters don’t deserve a safe and clean neighborhood.
By definition, renters don’t own property. Therefore, it isn’t their neighborhood. They just live there.
Thank you for pointing out that a description of existing property relations is classist, because it is.
So they don’t deserve quality of life if they don’t own land?
So the homeless don’t deserve QOL if they can’t afford rent?
What people deserve is a moral question that can’t be addressed without noting who actually owns our neighborhoods and the fact that the class interests of owners do not align with those of renters or unhoused persons.