Fed up judge sets meeting at LA shelter on homeless crisis
By CHRISTOPHER WEBERFebruary 2, 2021 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) A fed up federal judge in California said last week’s rainstorm created “extraordinarily harsh” conditions for homeless residents of Los Angeles. prompting him to order city officials to meet with him at a Skid Row shelter to discuss how to address the worsening crisis of people living on the streets.
“These conditions cannot be allowed to continue!” U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in a strongly worded order on Sunday. The action involves a lawsuit filed last March by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which accused officials in greater Los Angeles of failing to comprehensively address the homelessness problem.
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Fed up judge sets meeting at L.A. shelter on homeless crisis By CHRISTOPHER WEBER, Associated Press
Published: February 2, 2021, 8:04am
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3 Photos FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2017, file photo, people line up for free food being given out in an area of downtown Los Angeles known as Skid Row. A fed up federal judge says a rain storm during the last week of January 2021 created extraordinarily harsh conditions for homeless residents of Los Angeles and he has ordered city officials to meet with him at a Skid Row shelter to discuss how to address the worsening crisis of people living on the streets. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The federal judge overseeing attempts to resolve the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles has called an urgent meeting at a Skid Row shelter on Thursday to discuss worsening conditions and what he considers the city s failure to respond to the recent rainstorm that threatened lives on downtown streets.
Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic and soaring mental health and substance abuse issues, homelessness in the region is comparable to “a significant natural disaster in Southern California with no end in sight, U.S. District Judge David Carter wrote in an order filed late Sunday in federal court.