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Gavin you still have not provided the housing people need you are a failure. Now you wish to tear down the little they have. Disgusting.
People seem to confuse his politics. He's seems to be pro equal rights, but otherwise centrist(-ish?).
Whether those are his genuinely felt thoughts or a cynical play for a national run, I have no idea.
But he's been trying to get them off the streets since he was a mayor. This isn't new.
He's been trying to erase them. He doesn't care where they go, a grave or a cell.
I agree this is likely to cause suffering cause relocating sucks, and there probably isn't shelter space for these people.
He has a valid point that the camps have a lot of negative impacts. I've seen fires started,l in my city, heard horror stories about the conditions that develop.
That said, I don't know how much better the alternative is.
About housing, I mean, it takes more than a few years to build the tens of thousands of houses needed, and every year the state assembly is doing more to help with building more dwellings and preventing local govt and orgs from blocking construction. I'm not thrilled about response but it seems like they're doing a lot to help with infill development. I'm not an expert, so feel free to correct me.
And 10% of those homeless will literally shit in the houses and destroy them. But many more of them could thrive given sufficient help.
You have to be prepared for the first while doing what can be done for the second. It's a difficult problem, but it gets a lot easier if your goal is to cut it down by half or more instead of eliminating it completely.
Most of the homeless will cooperate with you. They want out too. It's good for everyone to get those people out. It's going to take time, and money, and effort.