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.”
Encampments cleaned up every 72hrs. Sounds great.
Till you are forced to live on the street through no fault of your own and it’s your belongings getting thrown away by police.
But that would never happen to you, you got yours, you’re a good person because you aren’t poor enough to lose your home.
That is a made up situation. They have the chance to move all their belongings. What they leave behind is trash.
Unless they aren’t there when the police decide to randomly show up, you think all the homless have cell phones and get email updates on this shit or what?
You are making excuses to needlessly make the most vulnerable people in our society suffer.
They don’t randomly show up. They post signs all over the area 48hrs in advance. They let the people leave with their stuff. I can tell you have never seen a clean up. And yes the homeless usually do have cell phones. They can get free phones with data easily. Over 90% of homeless have phones. Check out the Lifetime assistance program.
You clearly don’t know how these work.
They usually don’t properly communicate any of that.
They show up one day and if you are there you can take as much of your stuff as you can carry, if you aren’t there your stuff goes in the dumpster.
I hope the day you lose everything because of some random bullshit you are treated no different, because unlike most homeless people, you will deserve it.
You think people are homeless over random bullshit? You live in a fantasy land. Also what kind of person wishes homelessness on someone? You act like the moral police but wish ill on other people. Says a lot about what kind of person you are. You only believe in your feelings and make up stuff to try to justify it.
“He said cities should store belongings confiscated during encampment sweeps and give their owners a chance to claim them. He urged cities to give encampment residents a 48-hour warning before a sweep”
You can read the Governor’s sample ordinance. There is a lot of emphasis on notification.
“the Governor signed Executive Order N-1-24, which directed state agencies to develop policies to prioritize addressing encampments on state property while providing reasonable advance notice and partnering with shelter and services providers. That Executive Order also encouraged local governments to adopt similar policies, and to use all available resources and infrastructure, including the historic resources provided by the State, to take urgent action to humanely remove encampments from public spaces.”
Oh yeah I really think the police will cooperate and not give them an exhaustingly difficult time, or simply delay and make the homeless more miserable. Go look up how hard it can be to get your stuff back with civil forfeiture, then think about how much harder it will be when you can’t have an up to date ID.
What are these?
The police don’t do the clean up. Keep making stuff up. They often do standby though.