Originally published at: Malibu to solve homelessness by moving people elsewhere | Boing Boing
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What the WHAT?
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He needed to add “Jerk off.”
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What else can you do, turn them into street furniture?
I was going to add “or public art installations” but then remembered this scene from Roger & Me.
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So, the US-equivalent of Siberia for them, then?
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It would not be the first time that Californians were rounded up and taken to a US-run concentration camp.
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Ah, yes, the old, “people are homeless because they can’t afford homes within reasonable distance to decent jobs, so let’s move them out into the boonies without public transportation to job centers and then scorn them for not having jobs,” tactic.
So fucking cruel.
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Repeat after me:
Affordable housing and social services.
Affordable housing and social services.
Affordable housing and social services.
Affordable housing and social services.
Help the damn people.
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Well, as a strategy it’s an oldie but goodie. Works about as well as you would expect.
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And if they don’t accept the free ride out of town and keep walking?
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20 miles outside the city limits
So…make it Ventura or Redondo Beach’s problem?
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Malibu to solve homelessness by moving people elsewhere
So, like everywhere else in the US
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This is a shitty “solution” to a serious problem, but Jesus, I still laugh every time I see that Lebowski clip.
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In his Malibu world, all homeless people have immediately actionable solutions when it comes to addressing their homelessness.
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Silverstein also said that he did not want any City funding to go towards the ASL and that it should instead be funded through county, state or federal money.
Fuck that! As a CA resident, I’ll be bringing this story to the attention of my Congresspeople and the LA County elected officials. I will also remind them that California allows recall elections.
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“I don’t believe that the people of Malibu have a moral obligation to help people who come to Malibu in an unhoused state and choose to impose themselves on our residents.”
My neighborhood is in a dirty industrial part of town that most people would claim is a shit hole as they pass by it on the interstate to work. But what they fail to see is my neighborhood is processing THEIR old cars, processing their scrap metal, processing their trash, processing their solid waste, creating their energy, distributing the vast majority of food and goods, and carrying a large part of the homeless burden so other neighborhoods don’t have to be bothered by it.
But all they see is a shit hole and seldom realize it is their shit too.
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“For heaven’s sake, if you don’t have a private villa to sleep in then why don’t you just book a suite at the Surfrider Hotel? It’s like you’re not even trying to find a solution.”
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