On May 12, California Governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, demanded that cities throughout the state adopt anti-camping ordinances that would effectively ban public homelessness by requiring unhoused individuals to relocate every 72 hours.
While presented as a humanitarian effort to reduce homelessness, the new policy victimizes California’s growing unhoused population—approximately 187,000 people—by tying funding in Proposition 1 to local laws banning sleeping or camping on public land.
In his announcement, Newsom pushed local governments to adopt the draconian ordinances “without delay.”
California isn’t the place to be if you are looking for an affordable lifestyle. If you want that you’re better off literally anywhere else in the country. Mississippi, Missouri, West Virginia etc. California/Oregon have so many homeless not because locals are somehow priced out but because both states famously attract vagrants. You can do pretty much whatever you want with no consequences and get handouts.
You definitely sound like someone who lives in and knows about California lmao