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Newsom announces more funding in effort to clear encampments near highways

Original post made on Nov 30, 2023

The state is making nearly $300 million in additional grant money available for local governments to clear homeless encampments, with a focus on areas near state highways and Interstate Highways.

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Posted by Anonymous
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 30, 2023 at 12:34 pm

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A tremendous amount of taxpayer dollars is somehow being spent in “the homeless.”
It’s time to remove squatters/“encampments” from public byways, underpasses (see: fire), public sidewalks, the slope of Central Expressway (Sunnyvale, Santa Clara), freeway cloverleafs, etc.
It’s also time for accountability and auditing. I see very little of this, much less results.
I suspect more people come here owing to the current very lax attitudes/tolerance/variety of benefits of our government representatives. Safety, public health of the general public taxpayers needs to be prioritized over transients choosing to camp rather than utilize services from government and charities that can improve their situation, trying very hard!!
It’s time for identification and follow up from our government rather than continuing to expend our taxpayer money to an astounding extent on this.