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.”

  • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    4·
    13 hours ago

    Not the right things. It’s like if Gavin went and confiscated everyone’s dogs to sacrifice them to Zorak to fix the homelessness issue. It’s not going to work, it’s never going to work, and then when people complain, you say “well, at least he’s trying something.” The fact of the matter is that California has an extremely deep deficit of affordable housing. The cheapest rent in Merced should NOT be $800 for a room in a single family house, that’s zonko bananas, but it is. We’re never going to fix the homelessness crisis without addressing the affordability crisis, and the hell of it is that affordability is actually fairly easy and cheap to address from the government’s side, we just don’t because it hurts the NIMBY’s feelings.

    • AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf
      13·
      13 hours ago

      Where you going to build affordable housing in west LA?

      There’s literally no place for it. Should people living in Venice just be given beachfront housing for free to live in?

      Whats your SOLUTION to the problem? Because like I said. There are multiple reasons there’s a homeless epidemic across the entire country.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
        4·
        13 hours ago

        Okay, do you want the lecture, or the tl;Dr?

        Tl;Dr: bulldoze every single family home and put up commie blocks with commercial spaces on the bottom floor.

        Lecture edition: it doesn’t have to be that extreme, and we can do it without bulldozing homes with pretty simple and cheap zoning reforms. Bonus: we can also stop our cities from being constantly bankrupt, fix traffic, protect the environment, and make our cities stop sucking. Here’s the lecture, in case you’re interested: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_FCUbeVWK6OGLN69ehUTVa

        • AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf
          31·
          13 hours ago

          Honestly I wish we had the balls to turn LA into New York West Coast Edition. I’m right by the Wilshire line being built, and I cannot wait to be able to take public transit from my place to LAX to Grand Central in NYC.

          Thanks for giving a real answer and not jingoistic slactivism nonsense you see so many people spouting on here. <3

          I’ll take a look at that video later when I have more time on my hands.

          • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
            3·
            13 hours ago

            Hey, bro, it’s always cool when you find someone willing to have an actual discussion, thanks for being open to it! In case that playlist is too time consuming, check out Strong Towns. They’re an advocacy group focused on local-first evidence-based policy changes to make our cities stop sucking. Those policies almost always include fixing our busted ass zoning system and improving public transit and walk ability/bikeability among other things. I’m part of Strong Towns up here in Merced, and we’re pushing the city, kicking and screaming, into being a better place to live for everyone. They’re free to join and offer a lot of really great resources and support, and I’m almost certain that there must be a local group in LA.

            • AnalogNotDigital@lemmy.wtf
              2·
              12 hours ago

              For sure! I just hate that so many people have strong opinions on this shit then do nothing, don’t educate themselves on the problems at hand, and then acknowledge that people on the ‘other side’ of an issue have actual concerns that do need addressed.

              I’d fucking love it if we had our homeless problem under control, and I firmly do believe we would if all the fucking red states would stop bussing THEIR problems here.

              I’ve been in LA for 9 years and I’ve seen the changes that are taking place. Bike lanes are rampant on the west side, and they’re starting to come to places like Weho and others as well which is awesome. We’re expanding our subway lines, and things slowly are getting better. I wish we would take a big TVA style initiative, and make some dense public housing districts that were affordable, but that’s a HUGE endeavor.

              I’d love to get involved with local stuff like that, but I’m currently in a new job, and don’t have much free time right now. =(