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'Very aggressive' homeless camp crackdown coming in August, mayor says

Mayor London Breed said a “very aggressive” sweep of San Francisco homeless encampments will start in August, after a recent Supreme Court ruling cleared the path for widespread enforcement.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled that enforcing rules against homeless people for sleeping outside doesn’t violate the Eighth Amendment’s “cruel and unusual punishment” clause.

On Thursday, Breed celebrated the ruling and said the city plans to change its protocols and may begin issuing criminal penalties against homeless people.

“Thank goodness for the change in the Supreme Court decision,” Breed said at an election debate hosted by a local firefighter’s union. “Effective August, we are going to be very aggressive and assertive in moving encampments, which may even include criminal penalties.”

samus12345 ,
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The Bell Riots are on schedule for September, I see.

xc2215x ,

Not sure about this.

lost_tortie ,
@lost_tortie@lemmy.world avatar

NIMBY

NocturnalMorning ,

Fuck this guy. Instead of trying to hide them you could try helping them, would go a lot farther than destroying their tents and handful of belongings they have bcz you don’t like to look at it.

WhyFlip ,

They have to want to be helped in order to be helped.

UnderpantsWeevil OP ,
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Pull harder on those bootstraps

quicklime ,

The mayor’s pronouns are she/her. But I agree with your point, and so do a very great number of San Francisco residents. The current/upcoming mayoral election is being predictably pushed as a big fight over law and order issues by big-money organizations (a lot of the money coming from silicon valley, outside of SF) and also by corporate-owned local media. The mayor is cynically playing to that tune in her uphill battle to get reelected. As if that weren’t bad enough she had to springboard this off of a cruel Supreme court decision at a time when her constituents are mostly disgusted with the court.

finley , (edited )

Or how about you actually build some housing for these people?

edit: i guess i should have said affordable housing…

Deello ,

Housing costs money so evicting them is actually saving money. /S

SirDerpy ,

We already built more than enough houses. The problem is that bank and landlords profits contribute to economic growth, the mandate of capitalism. Housing the homeless would contribute far more to economic growth. But, it’d take more than four years to see the results.

So no. We can’t house them. The need to suffer because otherwise capitalism is threatened.

charonn0 ,
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The chronically homeless, the ones that are hardest to get off the street, are difficult to house for reasons besides availability or cost, though.

finley ,

Oh, fuck it then

FireRetardant ,

And we could still fund a facility and staff to house and treat them and it would be cheaper than the current emergency services and courts costs. It would also be more humane and prevent massive encampments from forming.

Kaboom ,

They dont want to stay though. You have to realize that some people just dont think the way others think. Call it mental illness, call it mental differences, call it whatever you want. But some people are just not compatible with homes.

Riven ,

That’s probably the case for some but not the vast majority. I’m sure there’s plenty who would like an opportunity to get back on their feet, speaking from past experience, some are just mentally ill and need mental health help to get back and to those who just prefer the streets they can go back.

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