California Gov. Gavin Newsom, buoyed by a recent US Supreme Court decision, issued an executive order Thursday calling on state officials to begin taking down homeless encampments.
It’s so maddening to know that the social ill of “home/house-lessness” is a thing in California when they have like 9485 zillion empty houses right now. It may not be a “perfect solution” but goddamn, just put these people into places where they can at least have four walls and a roof.
Exemptions will only be provided when property owners are subject to the same dehumanization and mistrust that people applying for disability and unemployment get. “Hmm, but how hard have you really tried to fill the vacancy? We need signed testimonials from every unhoused person you offered it to who declined.”
It’s so maddening to know that the social ill of “home/house-lessness” is a thing in California when they have like 9485 zillion empty houses right now. It may not be a “perfect solution” but goddamn, just put these people into places where they can at least have four walls and a roof.
Double the property taxes on vacant properties every week and homelessness will be over before summer is.
Exactly!
Exemptions will only be provided when property owners are subject to the same dehumanization and mistrust that people applying for disability and unemployment get. “Hmm, but how hard have you really tried to fill the vacancy? We need signed testimonials from every unhoused person you offered it to who declined.”
NOW WE’RE TALKIN!
There are probably enough empty rooms in the rich neighborhoods to house at least 300 people