Dem mayor deviates from progressive line on homelessness with call to jail vagrants

Democratic mayor A nourished in the way homelessness propagated in his country, it suggested a brave solution for his city: a homeless prison who rejected housing services three times.

“There is an extremely vulnerable subset of people who reject these opportunities, no matter how beautiful they are,” San Josea Matt Mahan told Fox News Digital on Wednesday. “It talks about the permanent challenge that we face with addiction and mental illnesses on our streets, and we somehow built a system that approaches to help those who want help, while a blind look to those trapped in an addiction cycle. And the reality is deadly. We express people to die on the street.

The move comes Like California Government Gavin News put on local self -government last year to clean up homeless camps in some of the most infamous cities in the country. In San Jose alone, about 6,000 people are homeless, which is a very contrast to the image of the city as the heart of the technological flourishing of the silicon valley.

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Mahan offered a proposal last month after watching the homeless in his city avoided the offered housing services, as well as talking to recovery groups to find out what most often breaks down the addiction cycle.

A new study at the University of California in San Francisco Benioff Initiative for Homeless and Housing (Bhhi) last month revealed that it is approximately 37% of California homeless The population is regular illegal drug users. The study also revealed that 48% had complex health needs in behavior, including regular use of drugs, severe drinking, hallucinations, or recent psychiatric hospitalization. In addition, 66% reported that it experienced mental health problems such as depression, anxiety, hallucinations or cognitive difficulties.

“I think the appropriate answer is to say, you must, at the very least, come indoors,” Mahan said. “Camping cannot be a choice when we offer accommodation. And if you are so caught up in the rush of addiction that you cannot say that a temporary residential or dignified shelter, we must create responsibility.”

Mahan said that “the threat of the consequences, it is an intervention, it intervening the pattern” actually drives people who are “most sensitive to addictions to emerge from that cycle.”

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Although Mahana’s proposal is to deviate from the progressive side of his party, the policman from Politico and the UC Berkeley’s Citrin Center this month indicates that 37% of voters, including political experts, supports the arrest of the homeless if he refuses the shelter. As San Francisco Chronicle reportedSan Francisco and Sacramento, thus noticed in the arrest of the homeless for the illegal camp after Grands Pass v. Johnsonwhere the Supreme Court ruled that the municipalities have the authority to make public camping illegal.

State Legislators This session also consider the proposal of the law passed by Sasha Renée Pérez Senator and Democrat of the Los Angeles district, which would prohibit measures that result in criminal sentences for refusing housing.

But to Mahana, who advocated reducing homelessness before he took his duty in 2023, it was not a “partisan question”.

“I’m just interested in understanding what works,” he said. “And obviously, what we do at the homelessness in California does not work. We are approximately … almost half of the unburdened population of the nation, so that the status quo decays, and as soon as we admit that the status quo on a homelessness in California decays, as soon as we will accept solutions that will make people without any services.

The California model “Housing First”, adopted throughout the country in 2016, is prioritized by providing permanent housing to homeless people without preconditions such as sobriety or participating in treatment programs as prerequisites. Politics critics claim that by offering housing without mandatory treatments, it has only worsened the problem, because some of the construction assessments of one unit reach up to $ 1.2 million in cities like San Francisco.

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From that policy, Mahan said, “We have to meet people where they are.”

“The insight we first took from housing, which I think is very valuable to preserve, is that we designed these temporary residential communities as a low barrier. We allow people to bring our pets, our partners, our things.