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.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    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.

    • MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 day ago

      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.