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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

While local governments are not forced to comply, Newsom said in a press conference on Thursday that he will withhold funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments next year.

Fucking Eric Adams with a $1000 haircut 🤬

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Nope, he provided them a ton of funding to fix the problem … and they didn’t. Kind of their fault

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If by "fix the problem" you mean punish unhoused people for existing and/or just get them out of sight without doing anything about the underlying problems causing homelessness.

Chief amongst them the sky high housing costs no doubt caused by the profiteering of some of Newsom's billionaire donors and former colleagues in the real estate industry.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope I do not mean that. $24 billion in funding plus 4 billion in grants to local governments. All of this before they decided to start removing homeless people from the streets. Don’t tell them they haven’t tried to fix the root cause, they have, they just couldn’t manage to do it, and honestly I can’t blame them, rehabilitating homeless people is a tough job that money can’t do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Don’t tell them they haven’t tried to fix the root cause, they have

Do you have a source of every local government in California trying to implement regulations that only the state and federal governments are empowered to enact? Other than your ass, I mean.

rehabilitating homeless people is a tough job that money can’t do.

Oh. You're one of those victim blaming "homelessness is because of drugs and mental illness" bigots. How disappointing.