In the weeks since a landmark Supreme Court ruling opened the door for cities and states to crack down on homeless encampments, California — the state with the largest homeless population — has taken some of the nation’s most sweeping actions against them.
Shawn Hubler, who covers California for The Times, discusses the race to clean up what has become one of the Democratic Party’s biggest vulnerabilities before Election Day.
Guest: Shawn Hubler (https://www.nytimes.com/by/shawn-hubler) , a reporter covering California for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Gov. Gavin Newsom cleared homeless camps in L.A. county (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/us/newsom-homeless-los-angeles.html) , where he wants more “urgency.”
• Mr. Newsom ordered California officials (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/25/us/newsom-homeless-california.html) to remove homeless encampments.
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Is this the newspaper that works for Israel?
By default, all local, state, federal, non profit, private organizations, commercial organizations, religious organizations and the public at large are ignorant of this issue. In other words, about roughly 90%+ of human population is ignorant. This isn’t factoring the % of those who are willfully ignorant in between. If you can lessen the level of ignorance, anything following respectively, will too be lessen, but will never reach 0. Ever.
In order to solve this crisis, a major overhaul of HUD priorities will need to be done, to start standards that should be implemented to related organizations/agencies wide as mentioned above.
1. Replace up to at least 50% of its staff up to director and CEO levels with former “homeless” individuals who have had direct experience within the container of “homelessness”. This will also include but not limited to unhoused individuals, drug manufacturers, drug distributors and those with addictions to start. Projected timeline 5-10 years.
2. Create a new, independent federal agency (Homelessness Development Affairs) with 100% of its staff to have direct experience in homelessness. This agency will provide continuous data from its think tanks to be mined from direct experience and create tools and policies (concepts to linear methods). Example: Approaching to a centralize vs decentralize methods.
3. A sub agency within the (HDA) to focus on education and data transmission to eventually reach the public at large. Create programs with active participation for both “homeless” individuals and all the necessary physical conscious objects they will interact with.
We need the purge to solve homelessness
It’s not controversial. Stop gaslighting taxpayers and making them feed bad for wanting law and order. Dirty and dangerous streets to appease a subsegment of the population that generally doesn’t contribute to society and continually makes it so we cannot have nice things.
That man, the aggressive hate leader, has he been evaluated for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? Or just a general psychological evaluation?
If you wouldn’t pass the test to be on a jury, are you legally qualified to be an accepted political leader?