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my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.

I'm not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn't afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one's available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.

but serious addiction isn't new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.

now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.

I'm not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can't afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.

Surely banning homeless encampments will solve the homelessness problem.

Ok sure.

While you're at it, allow cities to commandeer vacancies over 3 months to house the unhoused.

Or is the point to put the squeeze on folks without options or resources to move up economically without providing any solution.

Yo, fuck this guy - pivoting to the right? Fuck off.

Title is a bit missleading. He's also setting out $3billion for homeless facilities. Better than nothing, he'll probably criminalize homelessness even more than it already is at the same time.

I doubt the $3 billion will do much to reverse the damage California has done with their prison machine, cost of living crisis, and under funded public services. Unless they address the underlying issues the problems are not going to go away.

So - when did Newson have a Fetterman-like stroke?

Jesus , this guy looking to join Trump's team?

He has tried nothing useful and is all out of ideas.

we need the infrastructure for the unhoused to be housed. where does he expect the homeless to go?

The sun beams down on a brand-new day

No more welfare tax to pay

Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light

Jobless millions whisked away

At last, we have more room to play

All systems go to kill the poor tonight

Attacking the very poorest of society with all his energy. What a piece of work.

Ladies and Gentlemen, our 48th President (whether we want him or not)...

If you want to get rid of homeless encampments, how about making sure people have a safe place to stay at night?

What a cunt

California is a garden of Eden,

A paradise to live in or see

but believe it or not

you won't find it so hot

if you ain't got the doe ray me.

Crazy how California is speed-running a transition from liberal to left to Authoritarian almost as fast as the Federal government is transitioning from conservative to right to Fascism.

Sweep all problems under the carpet instead of trying to solve the root problem.

Just say "kill them", fuck! Stop pretending to be anything other than that.