Sacramento Will Mandate City-Provided Housing for the Homeless—and Make the Homeless Accept Ithttps://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2021/07/01/sacramento-will-legally-mandate-housing-for-the-homeless-n1458770Sacramento’s Mayor Darrell Steinberg has a big problem. The homeless population in his city is growing faster than bureaucrats can get people the help they need.
So Steinberg hit upon a novel scheme; Why not legally require his city to supply shelter to the homeless? He wants to force city politicians to do what they should be doing anyway: addressing the critical need for sheltering the homeless.
Of course, putting a gun to the city council’s head to force it to take money from other critical services to house every homeless person in Sacramento might seem a little draconian. After all, many homeless people refuse shelter. What happens to them?
Steinberg proposes a parallel “obligation” for the homeless to accept shelter if it is offered. However, one advocate, Eric Tars, the legal director of the National Homelessness Law Center in Washington, D.C., says that’s wrong: “The right to housing is based on the inherent dignity of the individual, so a straightforward obligation to accept whatever is offered undermines that.”
Just bulldoze their camps and keep on bulldozing wherever they move to until they move out or become productive people (plus or minus getting off recreational chemicals or getting mental help).
