GOP s Cox: California should force homeless into treatment Share Updated: 4:29 PM PDT Jun 28, 2021 KCRA File Photo
The latest breaking updates, delivered straight to your email inbox. Share Updated: 4:29 PM PDT Jun 28, 2021 John Cox, a Republican candidate for California governor, said Monday that he would force homeless people into mental health or addiction treatment before providing them with housing as part of his effort to cut homelessness in half in five years.In his second bid for governor, Cox also said he would step up enforcement against people living on the streets and work to speed housing construction. If elected, he would likely face resistance to many of his proposals in the Democratic-controlled state Legislature. If someone is just insisting that they can live on the street, they either have to be arrested and put in jail or they have to be arrested and put into a place where they can get the treatment they need, he said i
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The claim: California is vaccinating homeless people and prison inmates against COVID-19 before others
Shifting plans for distributing COVID-19 vaccines are drawing out new criticism for plans to administer the shots.
In a Facebook post on March 1, comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla took aim at the state of California. “In California the homeless and prisoners are getting the vaccine before taxpayers,” he wrote in the post that about 12,000 users have reacted to. “It sounds like something out of Idiocracy. If that isn’t the most California way of doing things I don’t know what is.”
Advocates have fought for those populations to be prioritized because they live in close quarters, such as homeless shelters, and cannot easily maintain social distance.