“There are no more excuses,” the California governor said in pushing for municipalities to address one of the most visible byproducts of homelessness.
  • Marn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    122·
    9 小时前

    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.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
    64·
    15 小时前

    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.

    • Lukas Murch@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      7·
      13 小时前

      I came here to say this sounds like something Trump or DeSantis would do. Disappointing it is Newsome. We need leaders with solutions, not bigger prisons. (I’m not sure what I would do, but I’m also not the Gov of California hoping to be in the Dem shortlist in 2028).

      • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
        6·
        13 小时前

        I’m trying wrap my head around the possibility of voting for Newsome just to keep whoever the Nazis nominate is really painful.

      • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz
        110·
        11 小时前

        I mean, they’ve been trying other solutions and they obviously haven’t been working. Citizens don’t like living near these and this issue is rallying people to the right. I get that banning and sweeping sucks and is just moving people around, but if that ends up moving people from a highly visible area to a less visible area then it can go a long way for local businesses and tourism.

        • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
          4·
          10 小时前

          So hide the icky poor’s away so people with money don’t get bad feelings when they go on vacation and businesses can make more money. How very humanitarian of you.

    • jam12705@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 小时前

      Efficiency and progress is ours once more Now that we have the neutron bomb It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done Away with excess enemy With no less value to property No sense in war but perfect sense at home…

    • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz
      2·
      11 小时前

      I don’t think the first part is true but unfortunately I agree on the second part. The west Coast in general has been struggling with this for a while and the compassionate approach hasn’t shown the promised results. Maybe it technically is, but visible homelessness is what gets people elected.

      • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 小时前

        The solution is so simple. Its two pronged. Get them a place to live. Help them with their problems. Its what happened in this country until a republican took apart the system that was designed to do that. It had its problems but the solution shouldn’t have been the abandonment of the national mental health system. This homeless problem is 100 percent tied directly to the utter failure of all politicians who ever supported cuts to the mental health system.

        The reason they do it is also simple. They are terrified that everyone will know how bad they are on the inside. Not realizing that most of us already know.

        • pineapple_pizza@lemmy.dexlit.xyz
          14·
          8 小时前

          Honestly you lost me at the first sentence. It’s very obviously a complex problem and to suggest it’s simple is just demoralizing to the dedicated civil servants that work so hard to fix it.

          And homelessness has always been a problem, I feel like generally people fall into this rosy recollection to a time where it was far harder to document it

          • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 分钟前

            Honestly you lost me at the first sentence.

            You seem to think that matters. It isn’t complex. Its simple. The solutions are simple. By trying to over think the solution you lose sight of the goal. You are commenting without really knowing the history of this subject. Homelessness is a epidemic now due in full to the destruction of the public mental health system. I know this and nothing anyone says will change that. I watched for years as every time my states budget came up they cut the funding.

            I watched as those I worked with had to make do with less. I watched people who were getting help to keep them stable lose coverage. The people who would have been institutionalized before the 80’s were let loose onto the streets. Frankly the complete lack of understanding is the problem we have with the current sad state of events. Coupled with the outright fear many of the worst minds in our society have for mental health in general its lead us to this path and denying that just guarantees the problem will not be solved. Those minds gravitate toward power. They hone their masks to cover their true nature and get fools to vote for them. They cast blame and over complicate a rather simple matter as far as solutions are concerned. They fear exposure more than anything and think what they are doing is the best thing for them. Not for those fools who vote for them. Just for them.

            Don’t perpetuate the lie that the homeless situation is complex. Its simple. The people who are victims of it are complex but helping them isn’t.

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
    82·
    11 小时前

    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.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 小时前

      Newsom was always a slimy neolib. He was just the lesser evil. The same story plays out constantly all over the US thanks to our broken two-right-wing-parties system, in which both parties are owned and operated by self-serving billionaires.