• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    15 hours ago

    I swear bro, we’re going to fix homelessness, just give me one more dozer sweep, bro, I swear it’ll work this time, bro I promise we won’t kill someone again, please, just one more dozer sweep it’s got to work this time

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      This isn’t even the first time something like this has happened. To my knowledge, this exact same thing happened in Modesto a few years ago. I sincerely doubt those are the only two. Dozer sweeps aren’t cheap, either; I’m pretty sure the city could just house these folks for whatever they’re paying to do the sweep. This is purely about flexing on our most vulnerable population.

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          I think this is one of those technically true things where a lot of the vacant homes are way out in the ass end of nowhere where you definitely wouldn’t want to displace somebody with no resources to.