“Facing a growing homeless population...”
Anything you punish, you get less of.
The growing “homeless” (we used to call them bums) problem is combining fair weather with lack laws, and plenty of freebies.
There are not enough motel and hotel rooms available for all the “homeless” that will make their way to San Jose.
On a side point, when I was young there used to be in every major cities cheap hotels (referred to as flop houses). At 50 cents a night, we are not talking the Ritz. They did meet minimum housing needs of a underground population.
The do gooders thought it was not fair that some lived in nice homes and some live in flop houses. So they either regulated or zoned the cheap hotels out of business thus creating the first generation of “homeless”
The government is in fact the problem, not the solution.
Take away the incentive to work (by providing the necessities of life)there will be some that will quit working.
And even if someone was willing and able to work, by mandating a minimum wage and employment rules, employers are not going to hire a street person.
The good news, socialism does not and indeed can not work. The system will collapse under the weight of central control.
The bad news is that all of people will be hurt when this occurs, and it will take years to restore what we once had but let slip away.
The Economy is so bad no one visits this forsaken area and the City now has to bail out the Motels and provide for the jobless! Add another dollar to that tax deduction on your paycheck working America! Of I’m sorry Money really does grow on trees!
They are going to provide rooms for 60 bums. Guess they’ll really be the winners of “Life’s Lottery.” It just bugs me to no end the left excoriates successful people as winners of “Life’s Lottery.” We all worked hard, kept our noses clean, didn’t do drugs, didn’t have kids out of wedlock, sacrificed, saved, and pulled ourselves up by our bootstraps. We didn’t win no stinkin’ lottery. The lucky few bums who win a five year gift room in a motel are truly winning the lottery. Just like the luck few who score subsidized “below market rate” housing in Peninsula and Silicon Valley cities and towns.