California governor vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments (apnews.com)

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[-] regul@hexbear.net 68 points 3 months ago

When 80% of every California police department's time is spent perpetually clearing camps so that people from one town can move to another, forever, there will be historic amounts of new funding for cops.

They will light piles of money on fire before they build public housing.

A town I used to live in in the Bay Area, Millbrae, filed a suit against the state because they felt the tiny program Project Homekey, meant to convert disused hotels into transitional housing, violated Article 34 of the California State Constitution, which bans public money being spent on housing.

[-] context@hexbear.net 52 points 3 months ago

Article 34 of the California State Constitution

Article 34 was added to the California Constitution in 1950 on the heels of the passage of the federal Housing Act of 1949. The Housing Act of 1949 banned explicit racial segregation in public housing, which left cities scrambling to find alternative ways to separate communities of color from white neighborhoods.

kkkalifornia at it's finest

[-] regul@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago

The town I mentioned earlier, Millbrae, just had a recall election that removed their first ever black city councillor and the first ever councillor from "the wrong side of the tracks" because they supported the conversions of the hotel to transitional housing.

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