Cynically, I take this to mean that he’s given up on the possibility of a 2024 presidential run.
While this will undoubtedly be popular with Californians who don’t give a shit about homeless people and just don’t want to have to see it, it would almost certainly have led to some blowback in the middle of a Democratic presidential campaign, so it’s safe to assume that the decision was waiting in the wings so to speak - ready to be implemented, but only when it wouldn’t cause problems for his federal aspirations.
Honestly this won’t have any impact. If enough people actually cared about the homeless for it to have a negative impact on electibility then the homelessness issues would already be solved.
I don’t think this would have much of an effect. Even your average democrat these days doesn’t give a fuck about homeless people. Even if they do it’s probably very low on there list of concerns, even progressives would probably care more about his Gaza stance than this. No one can imagine they could be homeless until they are.
Idk, feels like another one of his centrist moves cause he wants to look good for presidential run. Screw what the state wants gotta be able to appeal to republicans :(
Gavin you need to provide them some place to go!
Agree 100%. Look up the “housing first model” and donate to non profits that do this:
Far too many states handle homelessness very poorly.
They got the hottest desert or the ocean. Reminds me, if you’re homeless and were not homeless before, where did you live?
The most plausible answer is that you were a regular person living a regular life as a regular citizen. But hey, can’t pay to live somewhere? Fuck you! You’re out right?
And that folks is who these homeless people are…it’s you all in the future.
They are offering them homes right?.. right??
This country would have shanty towns like Africa if we allowed people to build and keep them. We dont even give then that dignity here
Apparently the piece of shit was a Republican all along.
Apparently the piece of shit was a Republican all along.
According to the article:
“This executive order directs state agencies to move urgently to address dangerous encampments while supporting and assisting the individuals living in them — and provides guidance for cities and counties to do the same,” Newson said in a statement. “There are simply no more excuses. It’s time for everyone to do their part.”
“Our city encampment teams and street outreach staff have been going out every day to bring people indoors, and to clean and clear encampments,” spokesperson Parisa Safarzadeh told CNN in a statement. “This is why we are seeing a five year low in the City’s tent count on our streets.”
Newsom has said while he opposes penalties for people sleeping outside, the Grants Pass ruling has been interpreted so widely that it broadly prevents cities from doing anything.
Yeah, I dunno. Doesn’t exactly feel the same as the republican agendas we’ve been hearing about.
They talk nicer, but in reality
Personal possessions, including medicines and necessary medical devices, are routinely thrown away. It’s a quotidian event that Leilani Farha, the United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing, described as a “cruelty” that she hasn’t seen in other impoverished corners of the world.
“'The idea that a government would deny people those services … when they have nowhere else to go suggests a kind of cruelty that is unsurpassed,” Farha told Business Insider. “It’s an attempt to erase people. Worse than erase — I can only use the word annihilate. It is a denial of someone’s humanity.'”
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Under international human rights law, governments are required “to apply the maximum of available resources to upgrading informal settlements” like slums, shanty towns, and homeless encampments.
“The struggle in the south is to legalize and regularize encampments,” she said. “Here, the struggle is simply to be able to create an encampment. In the south, there’s sort of a blind eye that has turned. Once an informal settlement is created, it’s established. Whereas here, they can’t create them.”
In the Bay Area, Farha talked to many people who were temporarily living in an encampment before they were ordered to move by city officials during a “tent sweep.”
“It’s damaging because they always have to move,” she says. “They’re treated like nonentities. Sometimes they say (belongings are) put in storage, but more often they’ll dump everyone’s possessions into one Dumpster. It’s horrible. It’s not dignified. The people have nowhere to go. It’s illogical. It’s tragic.”
Nice words don’t change the fact that we’re violating international law and abusing vulnerable people, they actually make it a lot worse because a lot more people would recognize what we’re doing and be horrified if moderate Dems didn’t do this propagandizing bullshit.
You posted 3 articles written about events in 2018. 1st link written in 2020, recounting the events of 2018.
Gavin was not even in office yet as Governor.
And to remind everyone who made it here again: your Gish Gallop comment is just a distraction from the topic I was responding to, which is Gavin acting like a Republican.
I’ll leave a link of my own. Reaganomics Accelerated the Homelessness Crisis
The article noticeably omits any mention of housing waiting to receive these people, leading me to believe there is none.
He’s one of Pelosi’s acolytes, so yeah, just another right-wing democrat.
Correct…
Gavin Newsom’s keeping it all in the family
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2019/01/gavin-newsoms-keeping-it-all-in-the-family/
Why are the Pelosi’s even on this infographic if none of the lines connect to them?
Edit: oh I seen Ron Pelosi married Barbara Newsom in the 1950s but then they divorced in 1977, nearly 50 years ago.
Nancy is Gavin’s aunt through marriage
Looks like it’s a lot more distant than that:
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s aunt, Barbara Newsom, was once married to Ron Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law. Barbara Newsom and Ron Pelosi divorced in 1977.
That means for a while, Gavin Newsom was related to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law by marriage, but the familial relation between the two now-powerful Democrats was even more distant. Not to mention, the marriage tying the two families together ended when Gavin was 10 years old.
I’m no fan of Pelosi or most of the Republican-lite DNC leadership but this is quite a stretch.
I remember when he was mayor. He was a walking scandal who used women and treated his job like it was owed to him. He rode the success of Willie Brown and grew up with money so he has no idea what hard work actually is. The worst part is that he’s the old money part of California that votes blue but is waiting for their Sinema Moment to sell out to a big enough paycheck. He’s always been a secret conservative.
He’s really trying to get the VP nod, huh?
He’s trying but having POTUS and VP both from California? Conservatives would lose their minds.
I’m not a conservative but for a national figurehead, stacking them up based on one state is poor strategy.
That’s not stopping him from trying.
He can’t be Harris’s VP. Two people from the same state can run on the same ticket but electors for the electorial college can’t vote for two people from the same state as the elector. That means that no elector from California could vote for a Harris/Newsom ticket. Democrats cannot win in the electorial college without California.
That is not going to happen
Homelessness is very often an addiction problem. They should be directing these individuals toward treatment.
Not voting for a party that normalises this, and homelessness.
NO HOME NO VOTE
Your vote can go right here then 🗑️
I know damn well you aren’t implying that a Republican has a solution to this problem.
I like how people act like not voting is some mega message to people. Like guys, most of the population already doesn’t vote. You’re not sending any message when you don’t vote. You want to move California left of this guy? Go vote for the most left candidate. Vote in the primaries for the most left candidate. You get where you want to go with solutions to the problems you have by voting, not by not voting.
Here it is, everyone: the most progressive state in the union.
