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Gov. Newsom Suddenly Decides to Ban Homeless Camps​

But what's his real agenda?​


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The takeover of California neighborhoods by homeless camps has been one of the most obvious features of the deterioration of public life. These camps moved beyond Skid Row and into nicer areas. Berkeley has been battling them lately and making headlines for it. But the only response by California officials was to raise more billions through taxes and ‘bond issues’ and then steal the money. While telling everyone to pay more.

Sales taxes in the area have shot up from 9.75% to as high as 11.25% to fund still more services for the ‘homeless’. The permanent sales tax increase is supposed to raise $1 billion a year to replace the stolen billions spent by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

In 2016 and 2017, LA voters approved $4.6 billion in homeless tax hikes on themselves that included a sales tax increase and Measure HHH, a $1.2 billion bond measure to build 10,000 housing units for the homeless, that taken together were supposed to end homelessness.

By 2020, the average cost of apartments for the homeless was at $531,000 and by 2022, a city audit found that one project was running to $837,000 for each unit. An audit blamed “a lot of consultants”. After 4 years of this, only 228 apartments for the homeless had been built.

Los Angeles then launched a pilot program to build 8×8 aluminum sheds for the homeless for only $130,000 each and then tent encampments for the homeless for only $2,600 per tent each month.
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But after all those billions, Gov. Gavin Newsom is suddenly proposing to ban homeless encampments. The last two times he was so interested in cracking down on homelessness he was…

  1. Facing a recall election
  2. China’s boss Xi was visiting
What’s going on this time? This is his last term as governor. He’s going to be out soon and he’s trying to do what he can to move his name to the top of the list for 2028. And since there’s a lot of time between 2026 and 2028, he’s doing different things, like launching a podcast, playing the moderate on transgender men and now proposing to finally crack down on homeless encampments.

But is he serious?

Gov. Newsom isn’t leveraging real political power to end homeless camps filled with drug users and the mentally ill. What he’s doing is introducing a model proposal that he expects major cities to reject. This way he can have it both ways. He can pretend he’s trying to end the crisis while having someone else to blame.

Vintage Newsom.
 
A lot of our problems would be improved with a renewed investment and prioritization of education and mental health facilities.
 
Start withe the worst of the worst, get the lists from the hospitals, police and ambulance companies of the most frequent homeless users of the system. Take these folks and put them in apartments and give them their daly dose of whatever it is. Better and MUCH cheaper to have them out of the way and taken care of.

No one likes this but these train wrecks will never boot strap themselves into usefulness.

These other type of homeless needs slightly different approach.
 
evergreenrider said:
Bingo. 20 years ago, rented a house just off the strip in Reno for $500 a month. New homes in the fernley area were less than $100,000. Fast forward 20 years Reno costs damn near as much as the bay area in CA.

Portland OR. 13 years ago apartments $500-800 a month. Now 1500-2500. The wages didn't raise at the same rates. Many of the homeless in the 2 cities i mentioned were once able to afford to house themselves.

Yes, addiction and mental illness is a major issue. But it also was an issue 20 years ago. When these people were still able to scrape by paying rent/mortgage while juggling whatever demon or struggle they deal with.
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In addition to what you both said what makes homelessness more of a problem is America needs to get rid of the Faircloth Amendment. The Faircloth Amendment limits federal funding for public housing. Basically, we have had the same amount of public housing as we have had 25 years ago more or less to my understanding.

What certain cities could do, especially poorer cities such as Jackson, Mississippi, Birmingham, Alabama and Flint, Michigan is work with a builder to build apartments but require that housing built has to accept housing vouchers once the apartments are built.
 
The major I see with homelessness is that the places that offer help/services for the homeless are in areas with such a high cost of living escaping homelessness seems futile.

IMO homelessness needs to be tackled at the national level, leaving it to cities isn't working.
 
wolfss said:
Is our boy in the Oval Office gonna do something about it? Is it a world wide problem? How come it’s mostly Americans and not the immigrants?
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The solution of this administration will be to criminalize poverty with vagrancy laws in order to turn the poor/homeless into a cheap labor source that will also generate profit for the private prisons/rehab facilities that farm them out
 
You can do what Atlanta did right before the 96 Olympics and give them all one way bus tickets out of town. :eek:
 
My Spot said:
You can do what Atlanta did right before the 96 Olympics and give them all one way bus tickets out of town. :eek:
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Or you can do what Houston did and give them homes:

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How Houston Cut Its Homeless Population by Nearly Two-Thirds

Houston has created a real system to address homelessness, aligning city, county and nonprofit efforts. That innovative program is now under threat, due to changes in leadership and funding.
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250k people off the streets with a high rate of retention (people didn't immediately become homeless again when they left the program).
 
djacobox372 said:
The major I see with homelessness is that the places that offer help/services for the homeless are in areas with such a high cost of living escaping homelessness seems futile.

IMO homelessness needs to be tackled at the national level, leaving it to cities isn't working.
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When you say a national level do you mean national levels just handling it overall or does that mean money flows down to cities? You would have to have cities involved because there needs to be boots on the ground to handle it.

Another thing that needs to be addressed though when it comes to homelessness is landlords and management of apartments, complex and condos, etc. have to be held accountable. There's so much crappy housing that ends up being run down and sometimes turn down because landlords and management are consistently not held to account for their units.

If we have to live in a country where landlords and management has to exist and then they don't fix needed things like mold and sewer then they need to face harsher penalties and in very extreme cases some companies should lose their ability to operate entirely.
 
F1980 said:
You cannot fix the homeless issue until you fix the fentanyl problem
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fent, meth, heroine, and all other drugs that screw people up enough to never be able to hold down a job. This is what the Democrat homeless wranglers/supporters fail to factor in.
 
Government should erect very simple and basic structures for the homeless. Small rooms, one plug, one light, and a community bathroom. Or open air pavilions with roofs at least and a public bathroom.
 
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