California’s Homeless are Dying, and Our Neighborhoods are Less Safe
4 min readApr 17, 2020
Proposition 47 or Prop 47 as it is known by many in California, was passed in 2014 by receiving 59.6% of the votes. Current Governor Gavin Newsome and George Gascon, the former San Francisco district attorney appointed by Newsome, along with other political activists called it the ‘Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act’ and it went on the ballot as such. Proponents…