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my unpopular opinion: homeless encampments in the US are a result of housing becoming unaffordable.

I'm not saying most people ended up in tent cities because they couldn't afford rent. usually people will sleep in their cars, find a spot in a shelter if one's available, crash with relatives etc. at least here (Seattle) most of those who live in big tent cities are homeless because of mental illness: drug addiction and/or psychosis.

but serious addiction isn't new. where did addicts live in the '80s? crack houses! before real estate turned into gold, there was plenty of mold-infested, aabestos-ridden, lead-painted substandard housing left abandoned or rented cheaply by slumlords. junkies could sleep there.

now, most of those buildings have been torn down and luxury condos rebuilt in their place, at least in the big cities.

I'm not pro-crack den. the old buildings were health hazards. but junkies can't afford the upscale housing that replaced them. they can barely afford tents.

I'm very liberal on 95% of issues, but if there is one issue I lean conservative it's homelessness. I want them to get the help they need, I support programs to help them, but I do not want to see a homeless encampment s take over public parks or other areas. I don't want the trash and safety issues near where I live and near my family.

I know this will get me dumped on my the ultra leftists here, but I didn't think my feelings are unreasonable.

Surely banning homeless encampments will solve the homelessness problem.

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.

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.

Yo, fuck this guy - pivoting to the right? Fuck off.

Jesus , this guy looking to join Trump's team?

So - when did Newson have a Fetterman-like stroke?

The sun beams down on a brand-new day

No more welfare tax to pay

Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light

Jobless millions whisked away

At last, we have more room to play

All systems go to kill the poor tonight

He has tried nothing useful and is all out of ideas.

we need the infrastructure for the unhoused to be housed. where does he expect the homeless to go?

Attacking the very poorest of society with all his energy. What a piece of work.

What a cunt

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.

If you want to get rid of homeless encampments, how about making sure people have a safe place to stay at night?

Ladies and Gentlemen, our 48th President (whether we want him or not)...

California is a garden of Eden,

A paradise to live in or see

but believe it or not

you won't find it so hot

if you ain't got the doe ray me.