In short, the state of California threatened to sue San Jose over ‘urban waterway’ pollution to Coyote Creek (in a namesake park with a bike racing velodrome surrounded by suburban homes… Iow, an affluent area of San Jose) allegedly caused by a Homeless camp called “The Jungle”. This allowed the city to displace literally HUNDREDS of citizens. Cruelly, San Jose destroyed the camp and many of the camp resident’s meager possession just before Xmas.



But despite the state’s environmental lawsuit, the scumbuckets-of-state who decree that this sort of legal action be taken WILL NOT VOLUNTARILY litigate a Jones Decision… “WTF is a Jones Decision?” I can hear you say."

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See Alternet: Some Sort of Hell- How One of the Wealthiest Cities in America Treats Its Homeless, and Four Fallacies of the Jungle Eviction by Chris Herring, Ph.D candidate in sociology, University of California at Berkeley whose work centers on West Coast homeless encampments.



Ps: I don’t understand why Alternet thinks the affluent people of ‘one of the wealthiest cities in AMeriKKKa’ would give a flying fuck. It’s notable most of that affluence in San Jose is in the hands of 'computer industry transients’ just there for the job.



Historically throughout the 1970s, 80s, 90s, and now, the city’s residents, except for large property owners, have clung to their ability to stay, as low paid service workers, and the odds these transient workers who’ve overwhelmed San Jose society over the last 30+ years would give one fuck about it is about nil. Like the politicians who work for them (certainly the city’s politicians don’t work for the poor), they cannot be shamed, b/c Psychopaths.



The city came at the crack of dawn the day the new camp (organized for a few days by Jungle residents in the wake of the original Jungle encampment’s destruction) was evicted. Workers began taking their possessions before residents had even woken up, according to a report by ABC7 news. It quoted Bramson, who did not return requests for an interview for this story, saying, “There are services available. There is support available.“

Support?See: Why Don’t Homeless People Stay At Homeless Shelters? at my inactive Blogspot site