On May 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, demanded that cities throughout the state adopt anti-camping ordinances that would effectively ban public homelessness by requiring unhoused individuals to relocate every 72 hours.

While presented as a humanitarian effort to reduce homelessness, the new policy victimizes California’s growing unhoused population—approximately 187,000 people—by tying funding in Proposition 1 to local laws banning sleeping or camping on public land.

In his announcement, Newsom pushed local governments to adopt the draconian ordinances “without delay.”

  • optissima@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Oh yeah I really think the police will cooperate and not give them an exhaustingly difficult time, or simply delay and make the homeless more miserable. Go look up how hard it can be to get your stuff back with civil forfeiture, then think about how much harder it will be when you can’t have an up to date ID.