Annual summit on the homelessness crisis held at UC San Diego
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Published 2024-07-25
"I think housing is a human right, but there’s a corresponding obligation to use it," said State Senator Catherine Blakespear.
She hosted the summit for a second year, which included different panels on addressing the crisis.
"People should not be able to live in public spaces or wherever they want. We’ve gotten to the point where we’re tolerating it and it’s become normalized," she added.
Mayor Todd Gloria took part in the summit. He told CBS 8 the governor's order aligns with what's already happening in San Diego under the city's encampment ban.
"We all understand encampments are unsafe and unhealthy, you do have to give people a place to go," said Mayor Gloria. "I’m hopeful his announcement today is really a directive to smaller cities, not big cities up and down the state who I think are working in good faith to expand shelter capacity, but really those small and midsize cities in our county that do none of this work."
MORE: www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/california/leaders…
All Comments (21)
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Can YOU call it a crisis when YOU caused it?
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He's DISGUSTING!! Maybe he should find the $3million he lost and DO SOMETHING about the homeless crisis instead of giving more human rights to US citizens rather than migrants!!
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Time to vote out the idiots that think this is ok or just talk about it. Give someone else the opportunity to get this resolved.
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They don't try to figure out how to help them, they just figure out how to shove them off onto someone else.
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Where did the billions go, Newsom?
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Where are these people supposed to go? Jail? Invest in private prisons now. If you see whats going on here your blind
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They don’t want to help anyone when people are making high salaries to “fix it”
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Shelters are no solution. I'm noticing no one is mentioning the unforgivable out of control cost of housing. That quite possibly could be the cause of the ever increasing homeless population.
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Recall Newsom 👎👎👎🤥🤥🤥🤥💩💩💩💩🐀🐀🐀
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We used to be able to live where we wanted until corporations and greedy people started building housing developments and everything else, and then outpricing, overpricing it to the point where you price out most of america.
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They will be back after the election
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1:45 “Housing is a human right” Ok I’m ready for my free house. Thanks.
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Where are they to go Gov? I can’t even afford to visit for vacation? If you remove people you should have a place you’re moving them to. When you willfully allow lower middle class and below to be priced out; you force people into situations where alcohol and drugs are the only way to cope. Then what?
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This needs to be done, but it should be done combined with providing alternative places for them to actually go though
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Yea because they asked for it when rents 5 grand for a flat 😂inflation strikes again
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Give the homelessness back to the churches and take it out of the government!!!!!!!
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I wonder who’s coming to visit & which city in California the homeless will be diverted to…. We pay all these taxes in CA & they still haven’t done anything with the money….
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what a gigantic waste of money and resources.
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Without homelessness California would have to give up half of the government jobs 😧😧😧
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Caused by government high property taxes and high rents.
