The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    And where do you plan to have them go? Because they have to go somewhere. Perhaps instead of fighting a symptom you treat the cause. Like a complete lack of affordable housing. And things like corporations and hedge funds hoarding single family homes that sit empty, often not even on the market because they’re treating them as appreciating assets not homes.

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        Texas has actually started reforming zoning laws to allow for more housing, as much of a shithole as that state can be otherwise

        Housing is an area that California has absolutely failed on, and it doesn’t look like Newsome will do anything to fix it

        Reform zoning laws. Allow more dense housing to be built. Once housing is fixed, homelessness will follow suit

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      17 days ago

      I loved that they let a ton of people out of jail when they legalized marijuana and vacated a ton of convictions.

      But then they literally just turned people out on the street with zero fucking pathways. No money, no home, no phone, just zero fucking resources.

      It was an almost overnight explosion of homelessness in San Diego.

      Sure they have always had a homeless population (the weather is particularly ideal for living outside most of the year), but nothing like it turned in to.

      Clearing camps won’t help. Like you said, you need to solve the root problem.