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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago

California governor vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments

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California governor vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments

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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 year ago
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a message to local governments: clear homeless encampments now or lose out on state funding next year.
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    Article 34 of the California State Constitution

    Article 34 was added to the California Constitution in 1950 on the heels of the passage of the federal Housing Act of 1949. The Housing Act of 1949 banned explicit racial segregation in public housing, which left cities scrambling to find alternative ways to separate communities of color from white neighborhoods.

    kkkalifornia at it’s finest

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      The town I mentioned earlier, Millbrae, just had a recall election that removed their first ever black city councillor and the first ever councillor from “the wrong side of the tracks” because they supported the conversions of the hotel to transitional housing.

      we need a :california-cool: emote

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        Also my rep is a literal CIA goon and so was his dad.

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          Former director of the CIA used to get take out at my location all the time!

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            there was a chance to do something really funny there

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              thought about it every time i saw him! but unfortunately that would’ve done very little to curb anything.

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      But I was told California is a “commie utopia”

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        people like to say those things for sure

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          I mean, I’m paraphrasing for the giggles, but “commiefornia”, “commieland” are two of the many that get thrown around where I live

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            oh yeah… “commiefornia” and “liberalfornia” were pretty common where i came from

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