Two op-eds in LAT argue that California should adopt New York’s right-to-shelter model for homelessness. NY has much fewer unsheltered people than CA. But this doesn’t mean it’s addressing root causes. @GavinNewsom often says: “Shelter solves sleep. Housing solves homelessness.”
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(I don't think it's just lack of empathy. There's active anti-homeless animus at hearings over encampments and proposed shelters.)
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I'd love to see academic research on whether the share of a polity holding that kind of animus increases or decreases with exposure to visible street homelessness.
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yep. It often feels like real wins for people without housing come from pragmatic, empathetic judges rather than the ballot box, where voters have so little empathy for the situation.