Published by Davis Vanguard
Recent initiatives to clear homeless encampments across California encouraged by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and San Francisco Mayor London Breed were blasted by San Francisco community leaders this week, who called for more compassionate, local-based solutions to the homelessness crisis.
Julia Arroyo, the executive director of Young Women’s Freedom Center, explained homeless sweeps are inhumane and counterproductive, noting that “criminalizing homelessness only exacerbates the problem and fails to address the root causes… sweeps displace individuals without providing any sustainable solutions, leading to further instability, trauma, and often death.”