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A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California’s capital city over failure to clean up homeless encampments. Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho says his office asked the city to enforce laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites. -
Newsom says California will intervene in court case blocking San Francisco from clearing encampmentsNewsom says the judge has gone too far and is preventing California from solving a critical problem. He says he hopes the case goes all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Police can’t force homeless people from encampments unless the city in question has “adequate shelter” to offer the people getting forced off the street, according to courts. Now everyone involved wants to know what “adequate shelter” is. -
The organization, which provides food and resources, contracted professional security to reduce the number of homeless individuals loitering nearby. But it's an expense the nonprofit said they cannot afford. -
The Escondido City Council recently decided to pull funding from Haven House, a long-running homeless shelter in the city. -
According to the initial report, the region needs to increase the number of homeless veterans placed in housing every month from 70 to 77 to meet the "functional zero" goal. -
In push for camping ban, San Diego leaders used misleading data to link unhoused people to fire riskPoliticians are citing data and growing complaints from residents to usher in controversial policy changes. -
A city homeless encampment ban ordinance that will allow county sheriff's deputies to cite people for sleeping on public property if they refuse a shelter bed, and confiscate unlawful personal property within 24 hours' notice, takes effect Thursday. -
For many, a single impound could put a vehicle out of reach for good, jeopardizing access to employment, education, medical care and sometimes even housing. -
On Wednesday night, a measure that would give cities and counties control over rent control qualified for the November 2024 ballot.
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