Local officials and advocates are divided over how to respond to the directive, which has left homeless people without a clear idea where they will wind up.
  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    While local governments are not forced to comply, Newsom said in a press conference on Thursday that he will withhold funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments next year.

    Fucking Eric Adams with a $1000 haircut 🤬

    • TheStar@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Nope, he provided them a ton of funding to fix the problem … and they didn’t. Kind of their fault

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
        5·
        3 months ago

        If by “fix the problem” you mean punish unhoused people for existing and/or just get them out of sight without doing anything about the underlying problems causing homelessness.

        Chief amongst them the sky high housing costs no doubt caused by the profiteering of some of Newsom’s billionaire donors and former colleagues in the real estate industry.

        • TheStar@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 months ago

          Nope I do not mean that. $24 billion in funding plus 4 billion in grants to local governments. All of this before they decided to start removing homeless people from the streets. Don’t tell them they haven’t tried to fix the root cause, they have, they just couldn’t manage to do it, and honestly I can’t blame them, rehabilitating homeless people is a tough job that money can’t do.

          • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
            3·
            3 months ago

            Don’t tell them they haven’t tried to fix the root cause, they have

            Do you have a source of every local government in California trying to implement regulations that only the state and federal governments are empowered to enact? Other than your ass, I mean.

            rehabilitating homeless people is a tough job that money can’t do.

            Oh. You’re one of those victim blaming “homelessness is because of drugs and mental illness” bigots. How disappointing.