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Supreme Court allows camping bans targeting homeless encampments
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Ah, your source is just your precious fee fees.
Classic boomer move right there.
Generally CA does not fuck with the homeless as far as I know, but there was one very obvious and glaring exception:
https://www.newsweek.com/gavin-newsom-slammed-cleaning-san-francisco-1843412
San Diego has also passed a camping ban and has been violently clearing homeless camps
In San Diego they passed a camping ban last year, I've been protesting it since then. The Union Tribune probably.has some news stories, but they absolutely have been doing it, and I don't have a subscription.
But is it mostly blue states?
I recognize that blue states do occasionally pass anti homeless laws.
But are mostly blue states passing anti homeless laws?
No clue. I have been focused on California since 2016. In my experience it is easier to enact local change, to influence state level changes, and later federal changes. I'm not really focusing on anything but my local city council meetings, and the various elections, especially judges, city council, and school board. Other than that I pay attention to my representatives / assemblymen, and senators at both the state and federal level. I do pay some attention to the presidential race, but as a leftist I have to hold my nose and vote for the milquetoast democratic candidate every single time for the last 5 presidential elections, and probably the 6th time in my life in November. Not one presidential candidate that I voted for in the primaries has ever gotten the nomination.
The case in question, namely Grant's Pass vs Johnson, originated in an Oregon town. Another blue state.
TBH I wouldn't be at all surprised if most of these recent laws come from Washington, California, and Oregon. They have the worst homelessness problems, and that's partially due to the fact that all three states have historically had robust social safety nets, so it was safer to be homeless on the west coast.