This is exactly what I was hinting at. The federal government should provide subsidies to a number of states which elect to build communities with multiple apartment complexes (either rent-free or extremely low rent). Then provide incentives and transportation to those homeless willing to leave California.
You must have missed the part where a studio apartment is 2000+/month in california. A homeless person can get one for 400+/month next state over in Arizona or go to Ohio where they're only 100+/month. Compared to California, any midwest state could be considered "extremely low rent" with welfare it will be virtually (if not completely) free.
I would think not living in your own filth on a sidewalk would be incentive enough to leave, but it depends on the person.
How does lowering taxes help people with no income? Besides, California HAS elected Republican governors which did very little to improve things long term. (Did you forget Schwarzenegger?)
Yeah, the only republican example you can come up with is the "get to the choppa" or "it's not a tuma" guy? "I'll be back"? how about "don't bother"?
How would you feel if I brought up Gavin Newsom? Is he not famous enough? Well, he's famously destroying whatever is left of California (or should we call it New-New Mexico?) right now.
Lower taxes will help other people have more income to share through charity if they wish instead of having that money stolen from them by the biggest mafia in the world (aka "the IRS"). Also, once these people get jobs, they will have more of income available on their check to help pay bills, buy necessities, etc.
How does increasing taxes help anybody? We already pay 25%+ in most states for payroll taxes. What about if we get the Democrat's universal heath care plans and everybody has to pay 40%+ in payroll taxes? You'll have more people on the streets, especially with a $15/hr minimum wage job as they won't be able to afford to pay for anything but taxes. That's if they can even find a company that will hire low skilled workers in this "Utopian Future" the democrats are promising. Well, at least they will be able to get free healthcare to care for the bubonic plague or leprosy they got from living in their own, or someone else's-maybe both, fecal matter. Good thing they can stay at the hospital for free while waiting the required 2+ weeks for a basic procedure like the other countries with such awesome free healthcare. Hopefully they live long enough to get a free government band-aid and then go back to their government provided tent.
The Republican party booted the entire population of mentally ill individuals onto the streets during the Reagan era. Since then they've largely lived by the motto, "pull yourself up by the bootstraps," or translated: "fuck you I got mine." They're certainly no friend to unions or the working class. The Republican party has sold its soul entirely in the name of worshiping the wealthy. Not that the Democratic party doesn't have its fair share of neoliberal crony capitalists, but there are at least some elements within the party attempting to return us to New Deal-style politics.
This is the problem with public schools and most colleges/uni's these days. Full of liberal gossip and nonsense.
Just to let you in on a secret, California actually started the deinstitutionalizing of mentally ill patients in 1967. "Oh, wait!" you say? Who was governor of california in 1967? Ronald Reagan. I guess you got me there, but "oh, wait", you think locking up people with down syndrome is the right thing to do or people with mild symptoms of schizophrenia?
I agree the criminally insane should be locked up if they cause harm to others, but all mentally ill people shouldn't be locked up just because they think they're a girl when they were born a boy or an attack helicopter, whatever. It's a shame, but this is how it was back then.
I worked at a temp job, back in my late teens, for a book publishing warehouse putting new dust covers on books and other duties. Every month, they brought in a group of mentally disabled people who helped us with the overflow. These people were the nicest people I ever met and hard working. I couldn't imagine them being locked up in an asylum just because they were "different" than you. I have to say I'm shocked that a leftist liberal with "so much love and tolerance for everyone" would even argue that these people should still be locked up. Shame!
(I'm sure that's not you where you were going with this, but I thought I'd take the shot at you, at least)
Thankfully, they either were able to live on their own or live in homes where they were cared for. Not locked up like prisoners or on the streets.