NEWSOM for cities: Make some stray bearings illegal

From Marisa KendallCalmness

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Governor Gavin Newsom has a new strategy to remove large, long -standing homeless camps that have been thorns on his side throughout his administration: press the cities to make them illegal.

The manager on Monday called on any local government to adopt regulations that limit the public camping “without delay”. He provided a hypothetical Modeling ordinance This defines exactly what you would like to see forbidden: camping in one place for more than three nights in a row, building semi-permanent structures, such as sheds to displace the public and blocking streets or sidewalks.

“There is nothing compassionate about letting people die on the street,” Newsom says in a statement. “Local leaders demanded resources – we have provided the largest state investment in history. They have asked for legal clarity – the courts delivered. Now, we give them a model that they can insert immediately, with urgency and with humanity to allow the camps and connect people with shelters, housing.

NEWSOM instructs cities and counties to copy its proposed ordinance or change it as they consider it well. Despite threatened To give up funding from local authorities who do not do enough to remove the camps.

The launch on Monday comes with a $ 3.3 billion promise to deal with street homelessness and mental health. That the money comes from Proposal 1A $ 6.4 billion bond that California voters approved in March to pay beds for treatment and permanent home. Newsom and other government officials were expected to give more details on Monday afternoon.

NEWSOM also warned cities that they should not ban camping at any time throughout the city if there are no shelter beds, and that they should “prioritize shelter and services.” He said the cities should store things confiscated while cleaning the camp and give their owners a chance to ask for them. He suggested that the cities give the residents of the camp a 48-hour warning before cleaning.

The Regulation on the Newsom model will ban all camping – including sleeping with a sleeping bag or blanket – in one place for three days or nights in a row. Unless the city has enough beds or homes at affordable prices to offer all its homeless population – which is almost never the case – it means that people would be forced to pack their belongings and move at least 200 feet every three days.

National Health Care for the Homeless Council has found This camp can harm the health of the residents, separate their connections with the services and bring them back on their way to the housing.

Even in cities that have a shelter bed available, walking in a shelter often requires people to abandon their pets or belongings or go without their partner. Calmness investigation Earlier this year, some shelters across California are struck by violence, poor conditions and low supervision.

Newsom’s call to ban certain homeless camps is the most recent salo in his continuing fight against street camping. The impetus started Last summerAfter the US Supreme Court in Pass grant vs. Johnson He has ruled that cities can illegally make the camp of all public property, even if people have no place to go. This decision has annulled six years of legal protection for homeless residents in California and other Western states, where cities effectively have to make sure that shelter is available before it breaks down into the camps.

A month later, Newsom ordered State agencies to adopt policies to clear their property camps and called on local authorities to do the same. Since then, more than two dozen California cities and counties have Submitted new campsite prohibitionsRenewed the application of old prohibitions or make existing regulations more indicative.

This is a developing story. Check again for updates.

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