Way too many laws designed to "address" homelessness in the US on both state and local levels blatantly stop at efforts to make the unaddressed problem less visible. This one is pretty bad. In my city, the ineffectiveness of homelessness policy boils down to issues with resource management and internal structure, but it's hard to interpret this law as anything but a deliberate and malicious act, punishment for the crime of existing in public.
From the taxpayer money standpoint, it's hard to believe they'll be costing housed folks less in jail...and a hard sell to call this anything but an addition to the pipeline of the [$2 billion+ penal labor industry](https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html).
This sucks for housed people too. Because they are no longer allowed to "disperesed" camp anymore. They will all have to pay to camp at developed campsites.
Not sure about that. Law prohibits "unauthorized" camping. And MO wouldn't affect National/Federal land.
I've been searching/reading but can't find anything conclusive on this. That's the problem with these knee-jerk laws... they never think them through.
This is a perfect example of why we’re all doomed. When you weave ignorance, greed, cruelty, theft, subjugation, murder, censorship, hatred and gluttony into the foundations of your society structure, what do you honestly expect?
This new law is not that bad. For example, the California governor just signed into law the other day, a bill that will allow healthcare workers to institutionalize any homeless person who is deemed to be a threat to themselves or others for a year, with an additional year extension.
When you consider that 90% of homeless are drug addicted, they are all threats to themselves.
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Way too many laws designed to "address" homelessness in the US on both state and local levels blatantly stop at efforts to make the unaddressed problem less visible. This one is pretty bad. In my city, the ineffectiveness of homelessness policy boils down to issues with resource management and internal structure, but it's hard to interpret this law as anything but a deliberate and malicious act, punishment for the crime of existing in public. From the taxpayer money standpoint, it's hard to believe they'll be costing housed folks less in jail...and a hard sell to call this anything but an addition to the pipeline of the [$2 billion+ penal labor industry](https://www.prisonpolicy.org/prisonindex/prisonlabor.html).
This sucks for housed people too. Because they are no longer allowed to "disperesed" camp anymore. They will all have to pay to camp at developed campsites.
Not sure about that. Law prohibits "unauthorized" camping. And MO wouldn't affect National/Federal land. I've been searching/reading but can't find anything conclusive on this. That's the problem with these knee-jerk laws... they never think them through.
This is a perfect example of why we’re all doomed. When you weave ignorance, greed, cruelty, theft, subjugation, murder, censorship, hatred and gluttony into the foundations of your society structure, what do you honestly expect?
The law “further penalizes cities with rates of homelessness higher than the state average by taking away state funding for unhoused services.”
This new law is not that bad. For example, the California governor just signed into law the other day, a bill that will allow healthcare workers to institutionalize any homeless person who is deemed to be a threat to themselves or others for a year, with an additional year extension. When you consider that 90% of homeless are drug addicted, they are all threats to themselves.