Newsom Orders Removal of Homeless Camps

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We went to Denver last year, and our car service driver said they bus homeless from California to Denver when we asked about the homeless tents right as you enter the city. City center Denver is literally nice buildings with bums walking the streets. We went to Jamba Juice, and the lady working there asked us where we were from, because of the way we dressed and spoke. I witnessed my first smash and grab from the Target.
Downtown Denver is a dump now
 

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Californias goverment can solve this if they actually just housed the homeless instead of making the situation worse.

California has spent a stunning $17.5 billion trying to combat homelessness over just four years. But, in the same time frame, from 2018 to 2022, the state’s homeless population actually grew. Half of all Americans living outside on the streets, federal data shows, live in California.
with $17.5 billion, the state could, theoretically, have just paid the rent for every unhoused person in California for those four years, even at the state’s high home costs.
 

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Just wrecking homeless encampment isn't the answer.
Housing and rehabilitation clearly is.

Like someone already said, okay, you destroyed their shyt.
They're still homeless.
They don’t want housing or rehabilitation
The recent SCOTUS case gave him an opening. There was an old case that made it impossible for him to clear encampments before because he would get sued by advocacy groups.
Homeless have advocacy groups?
Californias goverment can solve this if they actually just housed the homeless instead of making the situation worse.
What do you do for the ones that don’t want housing
 

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It's funny how some of you guys are soo high on this man being President one day but I just don't see it with how California is being run now I don't have anything against him since I'm not from Cali but he's got to be one of the more overrated politicians today.

He has that stereotypical demeanor and cadence of a Hollywood actor playing a mayor, governor, or president in a movie or TV show 😭. I don't know, maybe that's the appeal, but as a governor, he seems pretty dismal in terms of accomplishments and success rate.
Almost every conservative state is worse than California statistically…
 

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Presenting the homeless en masse as lawless anarchists
who reject homes is a liberal fiction.

Much like the welfare queen and black male vagrants with
tricked out Cadillacs of the 70s and 80s.
 

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Also, when it comes to this issue, people don't realize how many transplants we get that become homeless and that already homeless people flock here.
People literally catch a bus to California to be homeless here.
 

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Our corrupt mayor and maga councilman are excited to lock up some homeless. They love the idea of making it a crime to be poor.
 

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High inflation rates ----> Increased expenses all around. Much of which is related to rents.
A large percentage of the homeless population is Black and Young btw.
There's also the lack of protection there once the Covid exceptions were done.
Which means high evictions.

Couple that with a rough job market and/or lower paying jobs.
And you have a recipe for increased homelessness across the board.
 

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Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered California state officials on Thursday to begin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments, the nation’s most sweeping response to a recent Supreme Court ruling that gave governments greater authority to remove homeless people from their streets.
More than in any other state, homeless encampments have been a wrenching issue in California, where housing costs are among the nation’s highest, complicating the many other factors that contribute to homelessness. An estimated 180,000 people were homeless last year in California, and most of them were unsheltered. Unlike New York City, most jurisdictions in California do not guarantee a right to housing.
Mr. Newsom, a Democrat, called on state officials and local leaders to “humanely remove encampments from public spaces” and act “with urgency,” prioritizing those that most threaten health and safety.
Some of his own agencies are expected to take action immediately on state property. He cannot force local governments to sweep encampments, but can exert political pressure through the billions of dollars that the state controls for municipalities to address homelessness.
His executive order could divide Democratic local leaders in California. Some have already begun to clear encampments, while others have denounced the decision from the majority conservative Supreme Court as opening the door to inhumane measures to solve a complex crisis.
Despite extensive investment in homelessness programs, California still has a shortage of emergency housing. While the directive instructs state agencies to connect occupants of encampments with local service providers, it does not mandate that they relocate people to shelters. Nor does the order indicate under which conditions recalcitrant campers might be penalized.
Republicans have frequently pointed to homelessness in California as an example of the state’s purported decline under Mr. Newsom and other Democrats. They are expected to do the same with Vice President Kamala Harris, a former senator and prosecutor from California, in the coming weeks, as Democrats unite around her to replace President Biden on the ballot this fall.California Republicans on Thursday accused Mr. Newsom of “trying to take credit” for the efforts of conservatives who had sought the Supreme Court decision, and they charged that his executive order had come only after prolonged inaction.
“It’s about damn time!” said Brian W. Jones, the State Senate minority leader. Senator Jones, of San Diego County, has long championed bipartisan legislation to clear encampments, but complained that it has gone nowhere under the Democratic supermajority that runs the Legislature.
The Supreme Court decision on June 28 upheld an Oregon city’s ban on homeless residents sleeping outdoors. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had found in earlier opinions that it was unconstitutional to punish people for sleeping in public spaces when they had no other legal place to spend the night.


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