Judge's ruling to clean up Skid Row overturned by 9th Circuit
by Tori Richards, Investigative Reporter |
| September 23, 2021 07:21 PM
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/...-by-9th-circuit


A federal appeals court overturned a lower court's order that required the city and county of Los Angeles to find housing for 4,600 Skid Row residents by October.

The three-member appellate panel from the 9th Circuit unanimously found that U.S. District Court Judge David Carter lacked evidence for his theory that racism was the root cause of the area’s homelessness problem, which was the basis for his injunction. The higher court further noted the plaintiffs had not even made the racism argument.

JUDGE TRIES TO REHOME ALL OF SKID ROW, BLASTS “CORRUPT” POLITICIANS

The lawsuit was filed by the LA Alliance for Human Rights, which claimed the city and county created an untenable homeless situation. Carter has taken an active role in the issue, visiting Skid Row residents and even holding court hearings in adjacent parking lots.

In 2018, Carter settled a massive homelessness lawsuit between the County of Orange, several cities, and homeless rights advocates. The result cleared a nine-mile riverbed encampment and the Santa Ana Civic Center of more than 1,000 homeless.

Orange County supervisors, law enforcement, and city mayors worked together to open homeless shelters and relocate the residents in what was the largest homeless resettlement in the United States. But Carter has found no such collaboration in Los Angeles, where county supervisors and Mayor Eric Garcetti have fought the litigation.

In his April 20 order, Carter blasted Los Angeles politicians as corrupt and wasteful of taxpayer dollars earmarked for fighting homelessness. Garcetti responded by holding a news conference , telling Carter to “stay out of our way. Roadblocks masquerading as progress are the last things we need.”-- excerpt, rest at link above --