The Dust Bowls are back too! really is grapes of wrath time

The cruelty is the point

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.

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

The most coherent argument I've heard from is that the whole point of this policy is to ping-pong the homeless around till they naturally congregate in areas far enough out of site that nobody will bother reporting them anymore. So basically forcing them into massive isolated encampments so you don't have homeless people in public parks and shit.

Honestly if that's the fucking goal why not just be honest and have the state buy some vacant lots and make sanctioned "camping sites". At least then NGOs and shit could set up like showers and clinics and stuff nearby them. But knowing Amerikkka they'd probably just become concentration camps.

God forbid some just build some fucking public housing.

Reduces homelessnes via number shuffling, i.e. moving homeless across county lines makes it harder for them to be officially recorded. Like all things neoliberal it is the appearance of wellness but nothing true or substantial. Instead of money going into housing, shelters, rehabilitation, and job programs we spend more money into a police force well drilled into treating human beings like the way one herds cattle.

Liberals would legalize murdering the homeless if they thought they could get away with it. But since they can't do that, they pretend like homeless people disappear if no one is looking at them. They think the problem goes away if you throw away all their stuff and tell them they can't stay there.

The point is to make it easier for cops to brutalize unhoused people.

He is probably just ~~lying~~ using PR nonsense speak. But I wouldn't be surprised if they used some tortured definition of homelessness that meant if they can't track a person for X consecutive nights they won't be included in the statistica.

If you're trying to move everything you own you are not at that moment homeless.

No money will be spent to move people. If the homeless do not move they will be arrested and have their belongings thrown out. San Francisco has been doing this already.

They probably unironically think they can get jobs as cops to patrol every 72 hours and enforce this