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fatehbaz:

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Y\u2019know about notorious housing costs and homelessness situation in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the Pacific coast of the US? In 2023, Portland and San Francisco are both moving forward with major multi-million-dollar projects to outlaw \u201cstreet camping\u201d while opening \u201ccity-run mass encampments.\u201d

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The mayor, 14 April 2023:

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San Francisco is site of arguably one of worst situations in the US, where thousands units are completely inaccessible, and people pay over $2000 a month to live in closets or dorm-style high-density shared rooms, and upscale coffee shops and restaurants require phone apps or payment receipts for people to access restrooms. The W!!pedia page \u201cHomelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area\u201d is over 120,000 bytes in size and 12,000 words in length.

In April 2023, the city announces its grand plan: A \u201cfive-year plan\u201d costing $600 million to \u201ccut the number of unsheltered homeless in halve\u201d in five years. So not a plan to put people in homes, but just to get them off the street, qualifying them as part of the strange designation of \u201cthe sheltered homeless\u201d (they will still be homeless, but they won\u2019t be \u201con the streets,\u201d and will be \u201csheltered\u201d by a city shelter or camp).

Get them out of sight, put them out of the way on an island or something:

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\nIn 2022, the city estimated that over 20,000 people are homeless in a calendar year.

And that\u2019s only within the formal city \nlimits of San Francisco and doesn\u2019t include the rest of the Bay Area \n(which contains millions more people in Oakland, San Jose, Richmond, \netc.)\u00a0

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The rest of the Pacific coast?

In late 2022, Portland, its mayor, and its city council announced a major initiative to ban and outlaw \u201cstreet camping\u201d. Portland will simultaneously by opening\u00a0\u201ccity-run encampments\u201d or\u00a0 \u201csanctioned mass homeless camps.\u201d In early 2023, Portland begins this project:

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March 2023:

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Hmm.

One of the most popular homeless related questions on Q/uora, as if were a \u201cvalid question\u201d about how \u201cyou must earn your existence through work\u201d, and not a sickening disregard for life:

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Hmm.

Like:

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The context of this is that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the layer-under-the-Supremes court for the West Coast, has established that localities may not criminalize sleeping outside unless they have some acceptable place on offer for everyone sleeping rough, other areas under other circuit courts do not face this constraint and thus do not feel the need to build such facilities if they want to ban people from camping on the street.

(though other dynamics may exist \u2013 New York City recognizes a right to shelter, which underpins a system that serves upwards of 20,000 people nightly)

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