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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.

  • GroundedGator@lemmy.world
    28·
    22 days ago

    200M spent on alligator Auschwitz and an estimated 450M annual operating cost.

    Some googling tells me that an apartment building can cost about 200k/unit (I suspect it could be less). That’s 1000 units. And then imagine what would happen if you put that yearly operating cost into healthcare and other social programs.

    They want to build 1000 concentration camps. Florida is working on their second. Texas has one. Other states will certainly follow.

    Maybe Newsom should be building homes instead of division.

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      22 days ago

      The vice signaling at the Fed level such as the “alligator” compound, and the “encampments bother my snowflake sensibility, just move them” shit being done in D.C. is not a carbon copy of whatever California is doing. Success at their self-stated goals is TBD, but the California government is putting actual resources to attempt to provide appealing options to those being displaced.

      From the linked article, bolding mine:

      Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday announced the creation of a statewide task force aimed at dismantling homeless encampments on state property and expanding access to shelter and services.

      The State Action for Facilitation on Encampments, or SAFE Task Force, will coordinate efforts across multiple state agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, Caltrans, and the state’s health and housing departments.

      The governor’s office stated that the task force will prioritize sites deemed unsafe and collaborate with local governments to connect individuals with shelter, health care and substance use services.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
      49·
      22 days ago

      California spends over $50k per homeless person per year.

      How has homelessness only grown?

      Because of double dipping and lack of oversight.

      One homeless person goes and gets welfare from one place and then another day goes elsewhere. Both places claim them for a period even though they may only actually be going to one place a day.

      If California actually wanted to end homelessness, they could, but then the NGOs and administrators couldn’t profit off homelessness.

      California is performative in altruisms and they will never accomplish anything of value on progressive values if they can’t use it to give money to wealthy people.