California city decreases homeless population with zero-tol policy (cruel community)

[C C]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/califo...r-AA188F9W

INTRO: California cities have battled a homeless crisis for years, while still throwing billions of dollars at the spiraling tragedy to help those who are in dire need of housing. But one city has defied the odds, reporting the lowest homeless population in the state.

Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey [R] said there are no vagrants in his city at all, and he joined "Fox & Friends First" to describe how he has reinforced a no-encampment policy while still upholding the rule of law.

The policies that are in place at the regional and statewide level that are tolerating this type of behavior that is personally destructive and also destructive to the surrounding communities are really enabling this situation to increase throughout our entire state, and throughout our entire region," Bailey told Ashley Strohmier.

"Changing these policies will actually have a major impact," he continued. Bailey explained that the city works with the police department and a homeless service provider to give the homeless only one option - to get the help they need... (MORE - details)

[Magical Realist]

"We also make it very clear that we don't tolerate encampments along our sidewalks, and we don't tolerate other code violations such as being drunk in public or urinating in public or defecating in public," Bailey said. "We just simply don't tolerate these basic code violations. What ends up happening is an individual either chooses to get help or they end up leaving."

Seems a catchall law to criminalize excreting in public. I mean where else can they do it? And when they leave, where do they go? I can't see this a solving the problem so much as putting it off on someone else. They'll just be homeless somewhere else.

[RainbowUnicorn]

huge difference between a person who has psychiatric issues and cant live in a boarding house and wants to spend all their time sitting on a foot path in the city begging for money
and a person who cant afford to rent a place to live.

the lines are deliberately blurred to hide the profiteering of the rental market & people buy into polar narratives to suit their own financial status

[Syne]

Urinating in public is already a crime in most places, and can often lead to being adjudicated a sex offender. Homelessness if a choice. I know because I've been homeless for significant stretches several times in my life. Enabling homelessness encourages it. If people are that desperate for food or shelter, arrest them for trespassing, loitering, etc., where they can get three hots and a cot in jail.

The things is that they aren't desperate at all. They just don't want to work or be productive.