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.”
A regularly scheduled massive waste of time and resources just to be cruel to homeless people is quintessential California.
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
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
I fucking hate this guy.
And that’s why he will become the democrat nominee
While presented as a humanitarian effort to reduce homelessness
How does this reduce homelessness?
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.
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.
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.If you’re trying to move everything you own you are not at that moment homeless.
The point is to make it easier for cops to brutalize unhoused people.
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.
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.
all so he can get like 5% in the primary.
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!)
When our turn comes there will be no excuses for the terror
Gruesome Gavin needs to be purged.
I’ll leave “from what” up to the reader.
Fuck this douche.
I feel as if Gavin should be forced to relocate every 72 hours
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
Goddamn American democracy, just a contest to see who can inflict the most suffering on people.
