The announcement follows Newsom’s 2024 executive order, which directed encampment cleanups after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted state and local governments more authority to remove them.

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    2 days ago

    In order to actually address the homeless crisis, we would first have to fix U.S. Healthcare.

    Or we could leave everything broken, with the wealth still being transferred upwards, and keep funneling the people that have been ground up and spit out into our growing for-profit prison industry…

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      2 seperate things. housing would have immediate benefit than, something like healthcare reform. not to mention all the laws around rent control, zoning laws and nimbys.

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        Just housing them is really damn effective in my experience. They recently opened a pallet shelter “village” in my area. Since, I basically never see encampments, and the number of visibly unhoused folks has dropped a lot (since they just look like everybody else due to regular access to hygiene facilities). According to the cops, they’ve had zero calls out to the village.

        We should still do all the other things, but just put up a ton of free basic housing and you can make enormous visual progress.

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      I live in Canada, we have universal healthcare and we still have a huge homelessness problem. Its because everything is so fucking expensive now and there is pretty much zero support for mentally ill people or drug addicts. I live in a relatively small town and we even have a few homeless camps around. The police will raid them and make them move all their shit out every once in a while, but then they just come back again, they have nowhere to go

      Also not disagreeing that the US needs to fix it’s healthcare

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        The fix is multifaceted I feel, everything you said is spot on for the issues.

        I feel a fix requires Universal Basic Income and Housing, along with mental health support. A minimum level of support would at least help a lot of these people to be able to get off the ground or at least live with a modicum of dignity.

        Universal Healthcare would help at least with health issues that people out on the streets face.

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          Create a national jobs force/program, like the old Civilian Conservation Corps. Which can be organized and deployed to various US infrastructure projects, like building high speed rail. Offer some universal basic income along with their jobs. And offer housing as well.

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            I agree, having that and high taxes on the wealthy were part of the reason the US had such high levels of prosperity for the average citizen back in the olden days. The whole country should be getting connected via high speed rails, I feel. It would open up jobs for people living in more rural areas as well.

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      In order to actually address the homeless crisis, we would first have to fix U.S. Healthcare.

      It’s too bad that neither party is interested in doing so.