At least 66,000 LA County Residents are experiencing homelessness.
This is a humanitarian crisis.
This is a public health crisis.
This is a community safety crisis.
This is THE existential crisis of our time.
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We need a right to shelter law in California.
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Rights that are impositions on others are not natural rights, and are immoral.
Moreover this is not the solution! There are real solutions that are more complex that involve homeless courts and mental health treatment and *accountability and transparency* for homeless funds.
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Not sure I understand what you are saying Joe. What do you mean re impositions on others?
The east coast has a right to shelter. NYC shelters 65,000 people. We can't have people sleeping in the streets. We need to build/provide homeless shelters.
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Feels like a copy/paste /r/libertarian response but I didn’t interpret your comment to call for anything like the state forcing hotels to accept homeless people like in the pandemic.
Also, i fully right to shelter laws but only in unison with laws against encampments, etc.
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Yes - that is part of the reason to support right to shelter. Currently there are laws that prevent cities from shutting down encampments unless they can offer people a place to stay.
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If every city must be able to shelter all comers, up to 100% of the nation’s homeless, 99.9% of cities will have shelters going to waste and the homeless will take their national best option. There must be a cap on a city’s liability. Sheltering inside SF isn’t cost effective.
That’s a fair point. In general, it is unfair to lay the burden of homelessness solely on cities. It should be handled at a state / national level.
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