Judge orders L.A. city and county to provide shelter for everyone on skid row by fall

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Breaking: A federal judge ordered L.A. city and county on Tuesday to offer some form of shelter to the entire homeless population of skid row homeless population by October.

LOS ANGELES, CA - APRIL 03: U.S. District Court judge David O. Carter tours skid row with LAPD officer Deon Joseph on Friday, April 3, 2020 in Los Angeles, CA. Carter is the judge at the center of the Orange County riverbed homeless case. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times)

Judge orders L.A. city and county to provide shelter for everyone on skid row by fall
latimes.com
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Carter’s order comes the day after Mayor Garcetti released his budget for the next fiscal year, which includes nearly $1 billion in spending on homelessness.

David Barker, 56, is visiting with his friend living in a tent on skid row in Los Angeles, Calif. on Thursday, March 19, 2020. David is not homeless but he works in the area. Because of the coronavirus pandemic city and county workers are working to move people living on the street inside.

L.A. plans nearly $1 billion in spending to address homelessness under Garcetti plan
latimes.com

[twin_ghost]

1. Not everybody that is homeless wants to be in a homeless shelter.

Is the City supposed to arrest people that refuse to go into a shelter?

[intrepidity]

2. Hopefully, the "some form" of shelter qualifier allows for creativity

Maybe hotel rooms, or other rental situations? I hope.

[Johonny]

3. The order was to offer, not to force to comply

[PoliticAverse]

4. "to offer some form of shelter" - indeed there is no guarantee the homeless would want

to accept whatever is offered, but the judge said the city had to "offer" not "require".

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. I've done volunteer work in a homeless shelter in my city, so

I'm reasonably aware of some of the issues involved. The people ordering this have the right idea, and their hearts are in the right places, but homelessness is a very complicated thing. I do hope this plan works out.

[DBoon]

6. just Skid Row?

So if some of the homeless moved out of skid row to other places, they would no longer need to be offered shelter?