The court upheld a ban on camping in Grants Pass, Oregon, empowering local governments to punish people for living outside. ProPublica found that some cities are discarding homeless people’s property despite policies to preserve their belongings.
This doesn’t solve anything except homelessness being an eyesore, to which it relocates and becomes one elsewhere, requiring acting on the law, resulting in relocation and becoming one elsewhere, requiring acting on the law, resulting in relocation…
If they want to go down the route of not fixing homelessness, the next step is culling. Apparently the most expensive and ineffective methods are desirable.
It will achieve what its proponents wanted, which is forcible removal of the homeless from wealthy neighborhoods. People with power in society will again be protected from any possible discomfort or guilt about their lifestyle, and any impetus to provide programs to help such people will evaporate.
This doesn’t solve anything except homelessness being an eyesore, to which it relocates and becomes one elsewhere, requiring acting on the law, resulting in relocation and becoming one elsewhere, requiring acting on the law, resulting in relocation…
If they want to go down the route of not fixing homelessness, the next step is culling. Apparently the most expensive and ineffective methods are desirable.
The next step isn’t a culling. The next step is filling them full of private prisons where they can have cheap labor for capitalists
It will achieve what its proponents wanted, which is forcible removal of the homeless from wealthy neighborhoods. People with power in society will again be protected from any possible discomfort or guilt about their lifestyle, and any impetus to provide programs to help such people will evaporate.
Eventually they are all arrested and in jail, working prison labor jobs.