• regul [any]
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    3 months ago

    When 80% of every California police department's time is spent perpetually clearing camps so that people from one town can move to another, forever, there will be historic amounts of new funding for cops.

    They will light piles of money on fire before they build public housing.

    A town I used to live in in the Bay Area, Millbrae, filed a suit against the state because they felt the tiny program Project Homekey, meant to convert disused hotels into transitional housing, violated Article 34 of the California State Constitution, which bans public money being spent on housing.

    • context [fae/faer, fae/faer]
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      3 months ago

      Article 34 of the California State Constitution

      Article 34 was added to the California Constitution in 1950 on the heels of the passage of the federal Housing Act of 1949. The Housing Act of 1949 banned explicit racial segregation in public housing, which left cities scrambling to find alternative ways to separate communities of color from white neighborhoods.

      kkkalifornia at it's finest

      • regul [any]
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        3 months ago

        The town I mentioned earlier, Millbrae, just had a recall election that removed their first ever black city councillor and the first ever councillor from "the wrong side of the tracks" because they supported the conversions of the hotel to transitional housing.

        we need a :california-cool: emote

          • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            I mean, I'm paraphrasing for the giggles, but "commiefornia", "commieland" are two of the many that get thrown around where I live

            • peeonyou [he/him]
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              3 months ago

              oh yeah.. "commiefornia" and "liberalfornia" were pretty common where i came from