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What the fuck is the point of this compared to say buying vacant land for the purposes of allowing people to camp there? You could then have outside support networks set up some basic infrastructure for the people living there through grant funding/philanthropy. I don't think this a great idea, but at least the money spent would have a tangible benefit. As opposed to this stupid homeless people shell game/shuffle state and local governments insist on playing??
One of the points is to try to get homeless people to move north or east, out of the state. Another point is to not deal with the housing crisis on the whole. There's a lot of money that property owners stand to lose. If property values across the state go down to where they should be.
In my opinion, property should be cheap enough where anyone who works a full-time job can afford it. In other words, minimum wage should be enough to buy an apartment. Ideally. But you know the landlords will never let that happen. You know the real estate speculators will block that from becoming reality. At least that's the situation right now.
The cruelty is the point
Because the point isn't to benefit people, it's to scare them so much that they engage in extractive forms of capitalism even if it kills them, and to threaten the rest of us to shape up or prepare to be put through the same process.
if you take the problem and shove it over there, problem solved
Ah the Patrick Star method, I see. High level planning happening in California.