Newsom urges cities to ban homeless camps across California | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The ordinance specifies that officers may also enforce other city or state laws, including laws governing the use of controlled substances or weapons, fire codes and public nuisance laws.
51% : Newsom cannot force cities to pass his model ban, but its issuance coincides with the release of more than $3 billion in state-controlled housing funds that local officials can use to put his template in place.
51% : The Newsom administration seized on the Supreme Court ruling swiftly, ordering state agencies to begin humanely clearing encampments from state parks and freeway underpasses, and urging cities to do the same in local jurisdictions.
51% : Despite public pressure to address camps from San Diego to Eureka -- and billions of dollars in state funding to do so -- only about a tenth of the state's 500 or so cities and counties have enacted new camping restrictions, according to data from the National Homelessness Law Center in Washington.
45% : Once a combative champion of liberal policies and a vocal Trump administration critic, Newsom has been stress-testing his party's positions, to the point of elevating the ideas of Trump supporters on his podcast.
41% : The liberal approach to encampments has traditionally emphasized government-funded housing and treatment, and frowned on what some call criminalizing homelessness.
38% : "More than half of it went to housing, not homelessness," Jeff Griffiths, an Inyo County official who's president of the California State Association of Counties, said of the estimated $27 billion the Newsom administration has said it has spent on the homelessness issue.
33% : Cities would decide on their own how tough the penalties should be, including arrests or citations to those who violate the ban.
19% : "Sadly, Newsom and Trump are using the same failed playbook," said Jesse Rabinowitz, a spokesperson for the National Homelessness Law Center.

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