Newsom’s push to enforce anti-camping laws repeats California’s past mistakes on homelessness

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Newsom’s push to enforce anti-camping laws repeats California’s past mistakes on homelessness
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Gavin Newsom's executive order to crack down on homeless encampments doubles down on policies that don't work.

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My own experiences remind me that we’ve seen these laws before, and we know they don’t work. For me and scores of others, anti-camping rules didn’t Invariably, I would be released back onto the streets with nowhere to go, no personal belongings and new court dates I couldn’t keep track of, plunging me deeper into despair and perpetuating a cycle of criminalization andIn my worst moments, the threat of arrest led me to dangerous environments where I could avoid law enforcement, but where substance use and domestic violence were prevalent.

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