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.

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    2 days ago

    When all encampments are deemed unsafe and local services are already stretched to the breaking point, I think we can be justified in calling this out for the performative anti-homeless bullshit it is.

    Nothing short of a complete reorganization of the economy so that working class people are prioritized instead of billionaires will fix this problem though.

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      1 day ago

      Agreed with the second statement but the first is just abandoning people instead of helping them and that is negligence.

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        Newsom wants to clear out homeless encampments without expanding the services necessary to ensure they won’t just build an encampment somewhere else. That seems like abandonment to me.