Homeless Industrial Complex Archives

A Good Government Union?

December 26, 2022 10:11 amDecember 27, 2022 10:30 am

The terms “government employee union” and “civil service protection” tend not to inspire confidence amongst the general public, especially those who have been to the DMV, had to deal with the EDD, or have a child in public school in...

Newsom Can’t Hide Behind a Pandemic

March 14, 2021 3:11 amMarch 14, 2021 9:04 am

In his 2021 State of the State Address, Governor Newsom’s focus, to the exclusion of nearly everything else, was to defend his response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A quick review of the 3,634 word transcript indicates only 20 percent of...

Questions for California’s Next Governor

February 26, 2021 2:20 amFebruary 25, 2021 8:04 pm

The Recall Gavin campaign announced on February 25 that they have now collected 1,825,000 signed recall petitions. This means that if 82 percent of these signed petitions are validated by the county registrars, there will be a special election to see...

Government is Failing at Solving California’s Self-Imposed Homeless Crisis

November 25, 2019 2:15 amNovember 25, 2019 8:41 am

Local Mayors value their worth on how much public funding they can spend and spread around to campaign donors. In a new White House strategy on homelessness aimed at California, Trump administration officials say that housing needs to be deregulated...

Deafening Silence by Gov. Newsom and New CA Surgeon General on California’s Growing Homeless Public Health Crisis

November 8, 2019 11:43 amNovember 18, 2019 8:22 am

All of this is because of homeless drug addicts who are allowed to defecate, urinate, have sex and bleed in the streets, along rivers and beaches, and in public parks. In January, Gov. Gavin Newsom created the brand new...

How Federal Intervention Can Ease California’s Homeless Crisis

October 30, 2019 7:25 pmOctober 31, 2019 12:05 pm

By Edward Ring and Soledad Ursua On October 24, Curbed LA reported that the Los Angeles City Council unanimously voted to provide an additional $24 million in homeless housing bonds to “repurpose a building (207) on the Veterans Affairs campus in West Los...

Rather Than Tough-on-Crime Policies, Sacramento Sues 7 Transients For Harassing Businesses

August 17, 2019 2:42 pmAugust 19, 2019 7:14 am

If Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg or any other member of the City Council committed the same crimes the transients are – assault, dealt drugs, committed robbery, masturbated in public, or pooped on the sidewalk in front of a business –...