Tensions flared as lawyers for San Francisco argued before an appeals court to lift an injunction prohibiting the city from clearing homeless tent encampments
FILE - Tents line a sidewalk on Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, on April 18, 2020. Lawyers for San Francisco argued in appellate court Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, that workers can no longer maintain safe, clean streets while getting homeless people the help they need after a federal judge banned the city from clearing homeless encampments. Similar tensions are playing out in other U.S. western cities grappling with growing encampments.
But attorneys for homeless residents who sued the city argued before the panel that the district court judge was correct to order the city to stop forcing homeless people to move their belongings and tents until there are thousands more shelter beds available. In fact, they intend to ask the same judge at a hearing Thursday to enforce the injunction.
The issue could be taken up by the U.S. Supreme Court after lawyers for the small, southern Oregon city of Grants Pass petitioned this week for review of an injunction prohibiting enforcement of the city's anti-camping ordinance even through civil, as opposed to criminal, citations. San Francisco officials say their encampment operations allow outreach workers to connect homeless people to services while cleaning areas soiled with trash, used needles and spoiled food. Breed and others also say it’s inhumane to allow unhygienic encampments to fester, scaring away customers and blocking sidewalks for people who use wheelchairs.
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