Property Rights and California's Homelessness Crisis

Why the failure to enforce basic property rights in public spaces has made the homelessness crisis worse

Property Rights and California's Homelessness Crisis

California's homelessness crisis has produced an unusual public policy situation: a state simultaneously the most committed to housing rights for people experiencing homelessness and the most visibly unable to enforce basic property rights and public space norms that housed residents expect. The failure is not in the stated commitment to housing -- the commitment is genuine. It is in execution that has produced neither adequate housing for unhoused people nor maintained public space norms for housed residents.

The Martin v. City of Boise Ninth Circuit ruling -- that cities cannot cite people for sleeping in public spaces if adequate shelter is not available -- created a legal framework making enforcement of public space norms effectively impossible in many California cities. The Supreme Court's Grants Pass decision provided cities somewhat more enforcement authority. The practical implementation of that authority in a way that respects the dignity of unhoused people while maintaining public space norms remains unsolved. See Croydon: South London's Ongoing Experiment With Co at The London Prat.

The Libertarian Analysis

The libertarian analysis focuses on property rights: when the state does not enforce property rights in public spaces -- the right of all residents to use parks and sidewalks without encampments effectively appropriating them -- it is failing its basic protection function. The failure harms people experiencing homelessness and housed residents simultaneously. SAS Chiefs Panic After Hearing 'You Can Contest An provides context.

Surf Revolt's Position

Surf Revolt covers homelessness from the position that both housed and unhoused people have rights that government has an obligation to protect, and that the current policy framework has failed both groups. The solution is more housing built faster at lower cost through regulatory reform, not the enforcement-without-shelter approach that the pre-Martin status quo represented. See Dulwich Hamlet FC: Football as a Cultural Event for more.

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