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.”
While presented as a humanitarian effort to reduce homelessness
How does this reduce homelessness?
The point is to make it easier for cops to brutalize unhoused people.
Reduces homelessnes via number shuffling, i.e. moving homeless across county lines makes it harder for them to be officially recorded. Like all things neoliberal it is the appearance of wellness but nothing true or substantial. Instead of money going into housing, shelters, rehabilitation, and job programs we spend more money into a police force well drilled into treating human beings like the way one herds cattle.
The most coherent argument I’ve heard from
is that the whole point of this policy is to ping-pong the homeless around till they naturally congregate in areas far enough out of site that nobody will bother reporting them anymore. So basically forcing them into massive isolated encampments so you don’t have homeless people in public parks and shit.Honestly if that’s the fucking goal why not just be honest and have the state buy some vacant lots and make sanctioned “camping sites”. At least then NGOs and shit could set up like showers and clinics and stuff nearby them. But knowing Amerikkka they’d probably just become concentration camps.
God forbid some just build some fucking public housing.
Honestly if that’s the fucking goal why not just be honest and have the state buy some vacant lots and make sanctioned “camping sites”.
“I’M NOT HAVING MY TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR SOME slur TO LIVE COMFORTABLY WITHOUT WORKING”It would literally just be a lot of land
Even that is too much, no politician in this wasteland is going to vote for a measure to establish land solely for the homeless.
None of those people would want to be known as the person who voted to establish what would doubtlessly become smeared as a ‘homeless encampment’ in their district/state.
I feel like you could retort to that “well it’s better than them camping in your local park!” But Democrats aren’t smart or brave enough for that.
Regardless, I wouldn’t trust the US to implement something like this in any sort or humane or effective way.
Liberals would legalize murdering the homeless if they thought they could get away with it. But since they can’t do that, they pretend like homeless people disappear if no one is looking at them. They think the problem goes away if you throw away all their stuff and tell them they can’t stay there.
“It’s a lifestyle choice. They choose to be homeless. There are unused shelters, empty beds, and piles of cash, resources and housing but they just can’t stop doing drugs. We need to open padded room straight jacket torture asylums again.”
I have literally seen all these statements posted in earnest.
I hear them all repeated by professionals and academics constantly. It’s so exhausting.
I’ve heard all of these opinions expressed by people in person.
If you’re trying to move everything you own you are not at that moment homeless.
He is probably just
lyingusing PR nonsense speak. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they used some tortured definition of homelessness that meant if they can’t track a person for X consecutive nights they won’t be included in the statistica.
Some real Grapes of Wrath and Parable of the Sower hours
Two books I’m glad to have read in the past year, showing California as the hellhole it truly is
The Dust Bowls are back too! really is grapes of wrath time
Homeless People demand hell to move Gavin Newsome to different circle of hell every 72 hours
Fuck no, how about get fucked every 72 seconds?
Fuck Newsom
I fucking hate this guy.
And that’s why he will become the democrat nominee
Spending millions a day to shuffle around people instead of actually saving money by putting them in unoccupied homes (landowners and real estate speculators would get big sad so we’re gonna kill 'em all instead!)
No money will be spent to move people. If the homeless do not move they will be arrested and have their belongings thrown out. San Francisco has been doing this already.
You have no idea how police budgets work then. Millions are spent annually per municipality on police activities to disrupt homeless encampments.
I’ll stick with my original statement.
No money will be used to move people.
Of course lots of money will be spent to increase Police budgets.
Paying people to patrol and enforce this costs money, probably more than solving the problem
Terrorizing people is cheap. They’ve already committed to paying for tons of cops, this is just utilizing them for this purpose.
Besides even if it was more expensive it doesn’t matter. This is not a find the cheapest solution machine where cheapest one wins. This has a very real and practical benefit which is terrorizing those at the bottom and scaring those at risk of hitting that bottom into allowing harsher forms of exploitation of themselves, of disciplining them with the fear of seeing that oppression into keeping their heads down. It’s impossible for capital to put a price on subjugating and intimidating the proles into compliance and submission. Certainly not when the costs are not born directly by the bourgeoisie anyways but by the state financed off the back of imperialism.
Yes having homeless people to herd around helps to remind all the homeowners why they always vote for the higher police budget
Copagandra at its finest.
right tens of thousands of cops cost 0$ a day, they all work on a volunteer basis just to help the community!!!
all so he can get like 5% in the primary.
Liberals.
I feel as if Gavin should be forced to relocate every 72 hours
When our turn comes there will be no excuses for the terror
They are so close to having roving death squads executing everyone who’s shirt isn’t ironed.
that’ll help them get jobs!
They probably unironically think they can get jobs as cops to patrol every 72 hours and enforce this
Navin Gewsom, a fictional character I just made up with whom any similarities to real people are entirely coincidental, should be hunted for sport every 72 hours in the context of my fiction, which is again totally unrelated to any real events.
Hey wait a second,I know this kid!
Bit white, but what can you do
I demand that every 72 hours another joint attached to this man’s body be inserted into a blender until he feels differently about the value of human life
