Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
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Newsom Asks Cities to Ban Homeless Encampments, Escalating Crackdown
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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.
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Funding is easy to lose down the road but laws against the homeless will sure be there for decades to come.
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Yeah that $3 billion won't do squat. California spent $24 billion over a five year period and didn't track any of the money, how it was spent, or the outcomes. It's a safe bet that most of the money went to contractors charging extortionate fees for services while providing almost nothing in return, and probably quite a bit landing in the pockets of local politicians. It was basically a big scam to further enrich a bunch of greedy parasites. A few low-level idiots were charged with fraud and embezzlement of like $400k, but that doesn't even scratch the surface of corruption involved in that whole scheme.
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California will be fine. They just need to succeed.
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