You’re not wrong but a counter-point: in CA there is at least a small but significant number of people who actually want good homelessness policies (IIRC even Newsom has actually been ok on this, at least in word if not in deed). Contrast that to a whole lot of other places in the US where I have no doubt that a measure to just round up homeless folks and incarcerate them would pass by overwhelming majorities.
Uh, they just launched concentration camps in Los Angeles where they make hundreds of people camp in tents in an uncovered asphalt parking lot. Los Angeles also just made it illegal to be homeless in like 95% of the city. It’s absolutely bad, and not even good by comparison.
Being “good in word but not deed” is worse than meaningless. Being good in word is just the liberal camouflage for a cleansing campaign.