California County Sticks Homeowners With $22K Bill to Clean Up Homeless Encampment
28th January 2020
A Northern California housing community will be hit with more than $22,000 in cleanup costs after the county refused to pick up the tab, according to KPIX.
The cleanup at the Lakewood community in Castro Valley comes more than two years after the encampment was first reported to Alameda County in October 2017, as it was unclear whether the land belonged too the County, East Bay Regional Parks or the Lakewood Home Owner’s Association.
Foolish taxpayers. The function of government, as Jerry Pournelle famously said, is to hire and pay government workers — and not, apparently, to provide those paying the tab with anything so crass as services.