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I hate Gavin Newsom as much as the next guy, and I saw these headlines earlier and was pissed.
But...
...if you actually read the articles, he's following that with trying to appropriate 3 billion to address the problem of homelessness in a more practical way. And, that's the smart thing to do, because letting them live on the street and addressing it through policing and prisons is not only ineffective, but vastly more expensive.
Though, ideologically, I agree that criminalizing homelessness is a step backward.
This is really the crux of it, pairing enforcement with housing, emergency shelter, and treatment is the way to go.
There's a genuine question to ask...if you've offered someone all the support you can muster to move into their own apartment, fully paid for with support staff on site, and that person says no, they'd rather live in a tent in the park, what options are left?
I totally understand turning down emergency shelters. They can be crowded, difficult places. But when you're offering people their own rooms and they say no, what do you do next?
You figure out why they're saying no.
It's often stuff like forcing spouses to separate in order to get housing, concerns that the provided housing is unsafe, or mental illness which prevents sleeping inside.
I work in homeless services and can tell you first-hand it's not that simple
Definitely not. But just force people isnt going to do anything but send people to jail.