Opinion: A path forward for cleaning up California’s cities?
Californians are fed up with watching homeless encampments take over their streets. Vast swaths of once-beautiful cities are now overrun, with violent crime skyrocketing and needles and feces littering the sidewalks. Local leaders aren’t helping—in fact, their refusal to enforce the law leaves law-abiding citizens to clean up the mess their own government created.
But does good news from the desert mean hope is on the horizon? Does a Phoenix judge’s evisceration of liberal-run cities’ failure to adequately address homelessness show a path forward for California?downtown Phoenix’s homeless “Zone” have dealt with unimaginable hardships as one of the nation’s largest homeless encampments continues to expand. Murder, rape, arson, theft, public drug use, and prostitution are common occurrences. It’s not fair to business owners who have found dead bodies on their property and been forced to seal their windows and doors to keep out urine and feces. Nor is it fair to the homeless themselves, who face a hazardous environment riddled with violent crime and human waste.
Meanwhile, city leaders have handled the crisis the same way as officials in California: with uncontrollable spending and with big talk. The result: criminals roam free because city officials won’t enforce the law, and the crisis spirals. After a group of property and business owners sued the city of Phoenix over its failure to protect their rights, Judge Scott Blaney
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