Last year, California cities gained more power to ban homeless encampments. CalMatters dug into what that looks like in three cities.
  • DeLacue@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    There are only two ways for the homeless to stop being homeless; they get a somewhere to live or they die. Banning homeless camps accomplishes nothing but cruelty. Which of course is the point

    • boatswain@infosec.pub
      4·
      3 hours ago

      The problem is that it really has to be addressed at the national level. Otherwise, places with better social services and less extreme weather (like the big cities on the west coast) get overwhelmed by more transient homeless than their systems can handle–and that’s even without Texas or whoever shipping busloads more in…