Column: The governor’s mansion is empty. Should we let homeless people move in?
The governor’s mansion in Sacramento looks like a good place to shoot a horror movie — looming and empty.
We are at a unique moment with homelessness. The pandemic, for all its hardship, has generated a slew of federal funds. This year, the state budget is also flush, and Gov. Gavin Newsom is pushing to add billions in spending for shelter, mental health services and cleanups of encampments, urging us to “advance a resourceful mindset” during a Los Angeles news conference Monday.
Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife agreed with Ackerley that “rational people, probably your friends,” would say the idea is “pushing it too far.” But she’s no stranger to pushing. She made headlines not long ago when she and a group of mothers took over an empty corporate-owned house, eventuallyIf something doesn’t give, “potentially taking over the governor’s mansion ... all the mansions ... is what we are going to have to do,” she said.
It’s an anxiety I understand. My husband and I own a house in a comfortable Sacramento neighborhood, one that has long fought the idea of a shelter nearby and where there is little affordable housing. But the crisis of homelessness is everywhere. Not long ago, ain the face near the local doughnut shop. My daughters have watched men, presumably homeless, use our lawn as a restroom.
Jonathan Russell helps run a housing program in the Bay Area that buys single-family homes and rents rooms to those in need.
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