The attacks are a continuation of the longstanding assault on California’s vulnerable homeless population, spearheaded by the Democratic Party.

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.”

    • Jesus@lemmy.world
      201·
      6 hours ago

      IMHO, there is a fair amount of misinformation floating around this issue.

      Newsom hasn’t been pushing to blindly kick people off the street with no where to go. The draft ordinance is about filling unfilled shelter beds.

      So if you had 200 beds and 1000 unhoused people, Newsom wants to be able to clear enough encampments to get 200 people into shelters. Cities wouldn’t clear all the encampments, only enough to get close to filling the available beds.

      And that said, that policy doesn’t really account for the fact that shelters can be pretty dangerous and worse than the streets. So although this policy sounds compassionate, it’s actually quite flawed.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        21·
        6 hours ago

        So although this policy sounds compassionate, it’s actually quite flawed

        That’s an understatement the size of “Trump’s tariffs might not make eggs cheaper”…

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      533·
      16 hours ago

      He’s gearing up for a presidential run, and I’m mostly sure that the DNC wants him for 2028; he’s running hard to the right (not that he was ever really far left to start with, FOX made him sound way cooler than he ever was) so that they can try the “run a moderate Republican and see if we can win by peeling off a whole 6 republicans nationally and then shaming the tuned out base when we lose” strategy against Trump for a third time. There for a bit, I would have been pretty okay with voting for Gavin, but it’s clear enough to me now as a CA resident that he’s the clown prince of shitlibs and he’s just desperately scrambling to try and pick up support from DOZENS of moderate republicans all over the country.

      About the only thing he’s done lately that I agree with is dedicating $1B/yr of California’s carbon cap and trade program to CAHSR for the next fifty (I think it was fifty) years, which solves a HUGE problem that’s been a big source of delays for CAHSR, which is the lack of predictable funding.