disaster fascism
“Pitching tents in public places is violence” is an interesting line of reasoning to follow as climate change and rising rents displace more people, as cities grow increasingly aggressive about criminalizing their homeless populations, and as more climate and war refugees arrive.
wes, you familiar with the cicero institute?
I have heard of it. Solutions kind of think tank-ish?
they're writing model legislation adopted by several states now, designed to strip cities of housing-first money and redirect it toward only allowing camping in designated patrolled camps
the cicero institute provides the model legislation for this and has stated policy objective of replacing "street camps" with "structured camping facilities"
ciceroinstitute.org/issues/homel...
(Read the "one pager")
"The bill contains many hallmarks of a template produced by the Cicero Institute, a libertarian think tank founded by [a] Palantir co-founder. … Cicero’s model legislation criminalizes public camping & restricts funding for evidence-based permanent supportive housing."
The cruelty is the point, hm?
We are all frogs in water that the GOP is boiling.
www.vice.com/en/article/j...
In Kentucky, politicians are preparing to vote on a law that would authorize the use of force against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property.
www.vice.com
“The legislation — written by the Cicero Institute, a Texas think tank — is part of a conservative attack on “housing first,” an approach to combating homelessness that prioritizes a stable home before other services.
Both cities and the federal government have embraced the approach for years.”
not only do we not provide sufficient housing to solve these problems, we're actively making it worse by states outlawing housing-first policies at the municipal level, while criminalizing (individual) camping, and funneling dollars toward camps where they'll "provide services" at the edge of metros
You know why Finland housed their homeless?
Because it's cheaper - saving Finland about $14K per person per year in crime, addiction, mental health, and emergency housing services.
In Canada/UK/US, we mostly rely on raising police budgets instead & still watch those problems rising exponentially.
Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand has suggested that the solution to the crisis may be a Finnish model, which is a 'housing first' approach that aims to give everyone a home.
globalnews.caAnd that makes you wonder, if Bauman isn’t basing his bill on this research, what is he basing it on? Part of the bill includes model legislation from the rightwing Cicero Institute, which advocates for criminalizing homelessness and ending housing first. t.co/IaTaw9WkKY
State lawmakers are considering legislation that would ban street camping and end funding for certain programs that provide permanent housing.
t.coThis is the major problem I have with liberals. They only think of solutions within the framework of capitalism, and are usually oblivious to the fact they're limited by it.
"The bill contains many hallmarks of a template produced by the Cicero Institute, a libertarian think tank ..."
These 'libertarians' have a strange idea of liberty.
We are all frogs in water that the GOP is boiling.
www.vice.com/en/article/j...
In Kentucky, politicians are preparing to vote on a law that would authorize the use of force against unhoused people who are found to be camping on private property.
www.vice.com
Also:
"The legislation would... prohibit the use of state money toward Housing First initiatives, which provide a person housing..."
Make it make sense.
As always with the GOP, cruelty is the point.
I think of the states that have been doing it for many elections now and the absence of fraud it has shown and you have to wonder why we have any kind of debate about it !
I think the difference is a lot of the right wing pregnancy legislation is specifically an attack on girls/ women designed to punish, shame and strip them of equal social status.
So it needs to be addressed in that context or we risk allowing them to hide that aspect of it.
The first sentence of Wes Anderson's obit will now say, "Oscar-winning* director Wes Anderson," and then way down toward the bottom, it will say, "*-but not for what you think."
I think the fed govt is the only entity with enough money to get enough affordable rental housing built. SF has to build an enormous amount of affordable housing and they don't have the money. The policy could be "we're going to fund states & cities building all the affordable housing they need".
With Housing First, where do the people actually go? In my newsletter, I've advocated for villages of tiny homes and designated camping areas. Of course, permanent housing is the ultimate goal, but it seems an interim solution is needed. Would you agree?
I think it was wrapped up in the hurricane disaster money legislation from last year for "spend more money now"
Good overview of the rise of the Claremont Institute on the right and the kind of anti-democratic freaks it cultivates: https://newrepublic.com/article/174656/claremont-institute-think-tank-trump
It was once (mostly) traditionally conservative and (sort of) intellectually rigorous. Now it platforms white nationalists and promotes authoritarianism.
newrepublic.comthere's several thousand words of notfic of this now and i want to post it but first i would have to copy it all out of discord by hand. which is really only feasible with the 2 screens and the real mouse.
Only one of us is talking about how much they're hoping for Trump to institute camps here, and it aint me.
if youre familiar with comic strip at all i think youd enjoy it. and i think @dreadqueen.bsky.social would enjoy it by virtue of being fancy and sophisticated.
Giving cities and states license to make outdoor camping illegal means ALL OF THEM WILL DO IT
Honestly, only go if you want to. ::shrug:: I have heard it is kind of overrated now, more of a money trap then a money maker; but I haven't gone since I worked for a video store in the 90s. ::LOL::
Sorry Sonic fans, people are going to think of "Michael Bolton, everyone!" whenever the Flames of Disaster come up from now on - and yes you kind of only have yourselves to blame for going along with the stupid owl shit in the first movie.
if the choice is “federal legislation that mandates new housing in states and cities which have not approved it” or “incremental progress combining multiple solutions”, i can tell you right the fuck now which one will be more effective in the short, medium and long term, but knock yourself out
And let alone, I have literally never heard of the phrase "Ysrol Jews" in any kind of context before you first said it.
A necessary, but not sufficient, condition. Lots of communities have adopted a "housing first" approach, and it has helped. But it is (in the words of the OP) not enough to just get housing. The type of supports (and upkeep of housing stock) is also a factor.
