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Prairie_Seagull

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18. Homelessness would be an excellent plank to a platform.

Reply to JI7 (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 01:34 PM

Aug 2024

Further this needs national discussion and federal involvement. Whatever is decided, it will not be cheaper later.

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Newsom to counties: Clear homeless encampments or lose funding [View all] JI7 Aug 2024 OP

A double hot potato of moving people with no place to live and reduced funding sounds super effective. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #1

But there are shelters and other places they can go JI7 Aug 2024 #2

what lifestyle WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #4

? newdayneeded Aug 2024 #13

FALSE nt intrepidity Aug 2024 #5

The shelters are hell holes and not safe Johnny2X2X Aug 2024 #8

How about the people who have to live or work near these encampments? newdeal2 Aug 2024 #10

Moving unsheltered people around just makes different groups of people unsafe/uncomfortable WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #11

There are homeless encampments and there are itinerant encampments. haele Aug 2024 #43

Why? tavernier Aug 2024 #19

Shelters are underfunded Johnny2X2X Aug 2024 #22

Thanks! tavernier Aug 2024 #27

There are shelters and there are shelters. maxsolomon Aug 2024 #20

this is true rollin74 Aug 2024 #26

Blanket statements don't exactly work here LearnedHand Aug 2024 #30

Appropriate shelters or quonset huts with bunks? haele Aug 2024 #37

More about the issue chowder66 Aug 2024 #14

Problem is the NIMBYs haele Aug 2024 #39

YES!YES!YES!! They are a problem but some cities are not doing anything or way too little besides that. chowder66 Aug 2024 #42

WTF are they going to do with them? Arthur_Frain Aug 2024 #3

This is Newsom using the power of the purse to try to get cities to start solving the chowder66 Aug 2024 #15

I pin my hopes on this part of his statement intrepidity Aug 2024 #6

What does "produce results" look like? WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #7

Good question for Newsom. nt intrepidity Aug 2024 #9

Expanding shelters and more housing instead of shuffling them off to a different neighborhood. chowder66 Aug 2024 #16

So how do you do that if your funding is cut WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2024 #35

They've been given grants or money already. chowder66 Aug 2024 #41

Newsom going under the bus. nt LexVegas Aug 2024 #12

He shouldn't. He's trying to get cities to act instead of putting a bandaid over the problem. chowder66 Aug 2024 #17

Homelessness would be an excellent plank to a platform. Prairie_Seagull Aug 2024 #18

Expect to hear nothing about Homelessness in this campaign maxsolomon Aug 2024 #23

Sorry but homelessness IS an issue edisdead Aug 2024 #21

Agreed. There needs to be a stick here, as well as carrots. maxsolomon Aug 2024 #24

Good. WarGamer Aug 2024 #25

How about some Affordable Housing whathehell Aug 2024 #28

There is affordable housing being developed all over CA maxsolomon Aug 2024 #31

Are you a builder? whathehell Aug 2024 #33

No, Architect maxsolomon Aug 2024 #34

I see. Can you tell us what the particular whathehell Aug 2024 #38

The basic issue is that non-profits cannot maxsolomon Aug 2024 #40

Some of these camps Mz Pip Aug 2024 #29

Someone is prepping for a presidential run in the future (nt) hardluck Aug 2024 #32

That's all this is? Posturing for 2032? maxsolomon Aug 2024 #36