Even if that proves to be true, the law could also produce a less-discussed outcome: granting even more power to the City Council to decide which parts of the city receive focused attention on homelessness and which do not. Yet it also states that enforcement in any of those locations cannot take place until the City Council has reviewed the location and given the go-ahead. That strategy could force council members to cast separate enforcement votes block by block or encampment by encampment, said Elizabeth Mitchell, an attorney with the L.A. Alliance for Human Rights, which is suing the city over its handling of homelessness. In those places, the city has offered services and shelter and then prohibited people from pitching tents in those locations. The proposed ordinance won’t cause homelessness to disappear, he said, but will provide council members a greater level of control.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2021 12:00 UTC