Posted on 05/07/2023 12:29:13 PM PDT by CFW
The United States has a homelessness problem, but we have an even bigger homelessness-policy problem. It is an issue at the federal level—HUD spends nearly $10 billion annually to create bad incentives that reward destitution—and at the state and local level. This week, two widely divergent state approaches to homelessness were on display.
In Oregon, state legislators sought to grant the homeless a right to camp on public property and to sue for up to $1,000 if their tents are disturbed. This may strike some as an extreme example, but it’s unfortunately typical for homeless policy, which is largely controlled by a national activist movement. Made up of thousands of service providers, this movement has become unaccountable and has failed to make meaningful improvements in conditions for the homeless, all while docking taxpayers more and more money. In some cases, these groups have become urban political machines in their own right, with incentives to see more homeless on the streets because it means more public funding for them. States like Oregon are happy to play ball.
The State of Georgia, however, is not. On Wednesday, Governor Brian Kemp signed SB 62 into law, which will upend the status quo on homelessness policy in the Peach State. Passed with bipartisan support, the law is based on model legislation developed at the Cicero Institute, which I founded.
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This is a good article by Mr. Lonsdale and in it he sets out how the leftist groups actually implement policies to increase homelessness rather than prevent it.
I think the writer Mr. Longsdale is trying to out-intellectualize us. Just my 2 cents.
government hating American producers and rewarding non-producers
I hate it when I get out-intellectualized.
“I hate it when I get out-intellectualized.”
Same here. What’s worse is when others point out that I’ve been “out-intellectualized”.
Such are the woes of Freepers! And, we suffer in silence as no one knows the troubles we’ve seen.
Get up to speed Joe.....it’s ‘unhoused’, not ‘homeless’. Sheesh!
What would happen to the homeless if they were not given a penny of aid, and driven from the streets and parks?
? Do you mean you didn’t understand his points
Not sure what you mean.
And that’s just after the first round. The one on the right grows exponentially the longer the left is in power.
“camping on sidewalks and in public parks should not be permitted—much less protected and encouraged, as Oregon legislators are moving to do.”
Homeless camps are the primary source of ballot harvesting which is why Oregon does not have free and fair elections.
At this point, voters can no longer course correct because the correct number of ballots will always be harvested to ach3the desired outcome to maintain dem control.
You’re both wrong
Vagrant is much more appropriate
The only money that should be spent on “homelessness” is CCC style camps far from cities, for those convicted of vagrancy.
This law basically states that counties cannot allow the homeless to set up camp on public sidewalks and in public spaces such as parks. If counties wish, they can build an organized and controlled “homeless” camp in their county that is monitored and through which the drug-addicted are given counseling and addiction services.
Georgia is trying to prevent our state from having homeless camps on the sidewalks and parks much as you see in Portland and San Franciso. I believe the bill was introduced to stop the homeless encampments which have been growing in cities such as Atlanta, and to a lessor extent Athens, Columbus, Savannah, and Augusta (all Georgia cities governed by democrat majors).
Or, at least that’s what I understand from my reading on the issue.
“What would happen to the homeless if they were not given a penny of aid, and driven from the streets and parks?”
How about “what used to happen ...”
Either pack up your tents and all your other crap. Or we’ll do it for you and put it in the landfill. Simple solution.
“Either pack up your tents and all your other crap. Or we’ll do it for you and put it in the landfill. Simple solution”
It’s not as if these people have not been provided every opportunity to get assistance, not only in their housing but in their drug addition as well. And, it’s all on the tax-payer’s dime. In places such as California, their monthly benefits and “freebies” are probably more than my monthly retirement income after working for 40-plus years.
In addition, the reason they are on the streets is because they have burned every bridge with family members and friends who tried to help them to get “back on their feet” with a place to live, job offers, etc.
I’m so “over” it! The left enables and encourages such behavior. Then they make money off the problem they have created.
A link to the five page bill for anyone 3kse curious...
https://legiscan.com/GA/text/SB62/id/2762609
Looks good to me.
I’m stunned that the same state that refuses to secure its elections would pass this.
Throwing voters a bone...?
If you were old enough you wouldn't have to wonder, you would know because that was he way it was when we were a sane country.
They’d go to jail, or to a work camp, or to the local church for aid, or friends and relatives. This is how it always used to be.
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