The attacks are a continuation of the longstanding assault on California’s vulnerable homeless population, spearheaded by the Democratic Party.

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.”

  • trabpukcip [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I didn’t click the article, but iirc:

    Year X a federal judge in Idaho rules authorities cannot displace a person sleeping outside unless there is a bed waiting for them at a homeless shelter. City cops and governments use this ruling as an excuse to allow encampments anywhere while not working to improve access to shelters. Public perception and media coverage of homelessness goes extremely negative.

    Year 2024 - grants pass vs johnson Supreme Court case reverses the decision above, any perceived protections for the homeless are eradicated. The city of grants pass had been arresting/fining it’s homeless population in an attempt to drive them away; a disabled widow sued, which went to the SC, and she lost.

    Year 2025 - Democrats enact policies to harass, dispossess, and criminalize the homeless.

    The purpose of a system is what it does and this system is evil JB-shining-aggro