Judge's order pushes Garcetti into center of skid row case
It was supposed to be a banner week for Mayor Eric Garcetti. On Monday, he gave his annual city address in which he predicted L.A. would roar back from the economic devastation of the pandemic. The next morning, he unveiled his $11.2-billion spending plan for the city, committing $1 billion to homelessness in a “justice budget” that also promised to help address social inequity and racism. But hours later, in a move that overshadowed those announcements, a federal judge issued a 110-page order that skewered Garcetti over the city’s homelessness response and required the city to house o...