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.”
What the fuck is the point of this compared to say buying vacant land for the purposes of allowing people to camp there? You could then have outside support networks set up some basic infrastructure for the people living there through grant funding/philanthropy. I don’t think this a great idea, but at least the money spent would have a tangible benefit. As opposed to this stupid homeless people shell game/shuffle state and local governments insist on playing??
The cruelty is the point
Because the point isn’t to benefit people, it’s to scare them so much that they engage in extractive forms of capitalism even if it kills them, and to threaten the rest of us to shape up or prepare to be put through the same process.
if you take the problem and shove it over there, problem solved
Ah the Patrick Star method, I see. High level planning happening in California.