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This is shocking, even to me, but I kinda agree with DeSantis and FL Republicans on this one. (I know, write it down somewhere.)
Florida is trying to avoid the mistake that California is going through still today.
California does not have much of a plausible plan to deal with homelessness but has plenty of effort to make it easier for their homeless population to grow. Does not mean that Florida has that much of an active plan either outside of "access to services" (whatever that ends up being) but the last thing they want is their public property becoming homeless shelters.
While not a very humane action on Florida's part neither is encouragement of of scattering homeless all throughout whatever public property is there assuming services will go to them and/or that the usual complications of trash, drug use, and decease magically goes away.
Ultimately, the issue of homelessness is economic but we cannot "feel good" our way through this to the results seen in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and several other spots in California who ironically blew through $17.5 billion from 2018 to 2022 only to see the problem get worse.
In a near too close to call race, voters in California are doubling down on their idea, prop 1 and another $6.4 billion via bonds to throw more money at it.
Perhaps we should be more skeptical of California's approach and at least discuss why Florida went another direction.
Sources for numbers:
Florida is trying to avoid the mistake that California is going through still today.
California does not have much of a plausible plan to deal with homelessness but has plenty of effort to make it easier for their homeless population to grow. Does not mean that Florida has that much of an active plan either outside of "access to services" (whatever that ends up being) but the last thing they want is their public property becoming homeless shelters.
While not a very humane action on Florida's part neither is encouragement of of scattering homeless all throughout whatever public property is there assuming services will go to them and/or that the usual complications of trash, drug use, and decease magically goes away.
Ultimately, the issue of homelessness is economic but we cannot "feel good" our way through this to the results seen in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oakland, and several other spots in California who ironically blew through $17.5 billion from 2018 to 2022 only to see the problem get worse.
In a near too close to call race, voters in California are doubling down on their idea, prop 1 and another $6.4 billion via bonds to throw more money at it.
Perhaps we should be more skeptical of California's approach and at least discuss why Florida went another direction.
Sources for numbers:
California voters approve Prop. 1, ballot measure aimed at tackling homeless crisis
California voters have approved a measure that Gov. Gavin Newson says he needs to tackle the state's homelessness crisis.
www.cbsnews.com