As Camping Ban Looms, Burien Considers Privately Owned Lot Near Library as Potential Shelter Site By Erica C. Barnett On Monday night, the Burien City Council decided not to immediately approve abillthat would ban sleeping outdoors in the city “at any time between sunset and sunrise,” opt...
pillows, or cardboard boxes for protection from the elements while sleeping within the city limits. By a vote of 6-3, the justices agreed with the city, Grants Pass, that the ordinances simply bar camping on public property by everyone and do not...
Last year, Burien passed a new law barring unsheltered people from “camping” in the city at night, and created a map where sleeping at any time was banned. The law also gave city manager Adolfo Bailon unfettered authority to expand the boundaries of “areas protected from unsheltered ho...
The number of homeless people has spiked since the COVID-19 pandemic, but city efforts to crack down on camping, loitering and panhandling predate the public health crisis. Between 2006 and 2019, there was a sharp increase in the number of citywide bans on camping (up 92%), sitting or l...
but took no definitive action.Several dozen homeless advocates testified at Monday's City Council meeting, many of whom implored the city not to shut down the 50-person camp known as Whoville at Broadway and Hilyard Street, but instead to legalize and expand it as an emergency camping zone.Th...
But Larsen told me she does plan to ask for an opinion from city attorneys in the near future. However, she stopped short of saying that she would immediately support prohibiting public camping if the attorneys say the Boise ruling...
For example, let’s talk about what is going on in Los Angeles. No city on the west coast has a bigger problem with homelessness than L.A. does, and many in the homeless population enjoy camping out on the beautiful beaches in the L.A. area at night. ...
San Jose closes safe parking site earlier than expected “Because of this problem with the unhoused we can’t raise rent, or businesses will for sure leave. We are losing a lot of money, we are close to breaking even,” Garza told San José Spotlight. ...
The homeless woman said she was reluctant to go to the hotel rooms that had been offered to people camping at the park, saying she’d heard that residents would be searched and subjected to curfews. Yellow tape ringed the blocks surrounding the park, where police cruisers blocked ...
“The status quo is not working. Maybe this ordinance isn’t perfect,” Director Barbara Keegan said at Tuesday’s meeting. “But we’re spending a lot of money to deal with unhoused issues and it’s not benefiting the unhoused or the society at large.” ...