The law authorizes the state attorney general to sue cities that don’t enforce the ban. It further penalizes cities with rates of homelessness higher than the state average by taking away state funding for unhoused services.
The measure also bars cities and organizations from using state and federal grants to build permanent housing for the unsheltered. Rather, that money must be directed to build temporary camps.
People wanting to stay at the temporary camps must submit to mental health and substance-use evaluations, which contradicts the current federally backed “Housing First” model, which says no one should have to meet requirements to seek shelter.
So doing the exact opposite of everything we know actually helps the homeless.
The only sorta good part of Missouri is the City of St. Louis (just the "City of St. Louis" county that has like 300k people) and North County. The rest of the state - certainly the white folks at least - are probably on board with this 100%. Death to Missouri.
I admit I get a bit defensive when folks on this site shit on how California addresses homelessness. And no, CA isn't great about it by any stretch. But there is a significant movement both among the people and in the government / state bureaucracy to address homelessness in at least somewhat humane and evidence-based manner. Folks back in the Midwest... the pigs could "disappear" every homeless person and most white folks there wouldn't bat an eye, if not openly cheer it.
My hunch is there's a low key war in MO between country vs cities. The major cities will have the largest number of homeless folks of course, so just another way to try and take further resources away from population centers.
I've been in a lot rural, conservative parts of the US and rural MO was the worst I think I've been in.
Granted I haven’t lived in Missouri in quite some time, but south/southwestern Missouri was the only place I’ve ever physically felt unsafe, where I saw coded klan shit and a couple Nazi flags, and I’ve spent a ton of time traveling all over rural America. Did a job outside of Springfield once and told my boss to never send me there again or I’ll quit because the client started ranting about politics and started dogwhistling about Jews
Please don't forget about KC! We have free public transit and a really good tenant's union!!! Pretty much anywhere else sucks though, star_wraith has it right that the rest of the state is completely different from the two ok spots. SW Missouri is quite unsafe (for a queer) a lot of the time.
So doing the exact opposite of everything we know actually helps the homeless.
The only sorta good part of Missouri is the City of St. Louis (just the "City of St. Louis" county that has like 300k people) and North County. The rest of the state - certainly the white folks at least - are probably on board with this 100%. Death to Missouri.
I admit I get a bit defensive when folks on this site shit on how California addresses homelessness. And no, CA isn't great about it by any stretch. But there is a significant movement both among the people and in the government / state bureaucracy to address homelessness in at least somewhat humane and evidence-based manner. Folks back in the Midwest... the pigs could "disappear" every homeless person and most white folks there wouldn't bat an eye, if not openly cheer it.
I would rather be homeless in California than any chud state, but yeah this entire country despises homeless.
No doubt, :amerikkka: of course
How does this even make sense, what the fuck
My hunch is there's a low key war in MO between country vs cities. The major cities will have the largest number of homeless folks of course, so just another way to try and take further resources away from population centers.
I've been in a lot rural, conservative parts of the US and rural MO was the worst I think I've been in.
Granted I haven’t lived in Missouri in quite some time, but south/southwestern Missouri was the only place I’ve ever physically felt unsafe, where I saw coded klan shit and a couple Nazi flags, and I’ve spent a ton of time traveling all over rural America. Did a job outside of Springfield once and told my boss to never send me there again or I’ll quit because the client started ranting about politics and started dogwhistling about Jews
I'd say that's a fair assessment.
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Please don't forget about KC! We have free public transit and a really good tenant's union!!! Pretty much anywhere else sucks though, star_wraith has it right that the rest of the state is completely different from the two ok spots. SW Missouri is quite unsafe (for a queer) a lot of the time.
KCMO isn't bad either, but probably because it's practically Kansas