Cynically, I take this to mean that he’s given up on the possibility of a 2024 presidential run.
While this will undoubtedly be popular with Californians who don’t give a shit about homeless people and just don’t want to have to see it, it would almost certainly have led to some blowback in the middle of a Democratic presidential campaign, so it’s safe to assume that the decision was waiting in the wings so to speak - ready to be implemented, but only when it wouldn’t cause problems for his federal aspirations.
I don’t think this would have much of an effect. Even your average democrat these days doesn’t give a fuck about homeless people. Even if they do it’s probably very low on there list of concerns, even progressives would probably care more about his Gaza stance than this. No one can imagine they could be homeless until they are.
