The district attorney in Sacramento is threatening officials in California's capital city with legal action over the city's handling of the homelessness crisis.
FILE - Tents and other shelters used by people experiencing homelessness stand along the American River Parkway in Sacramento, Calif., Feb. 24, 2022. Tensions are rising in California's capitol city as the Sacramento district attorney on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, threatened to file charges against city officials over their handling of the homelessness crisis.
Ho also wants the city to clear all 16 encampments within city's limits, open 24-hour shelter beds for thousands of people who sleep on the streets each night, give out citations to those who decline shelter, and hire four more city attorneys to enforce city rules, among other things. In a statement, Steinberg said Ho “deflects responsibility, takes credit for programs the city initiated, lacks basic understanding of existing shelter management system and funding structures, and includes a series of demands that would cripple the city financially.
Chris Herring, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said he’s never heard of a district attorney threatening to sue a city over its response to homeless encampments – and certainly not so publicly.Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, for example, threatened to reinstate a public camping ban that the city of Austin lifted in 2019 under then-Mayor Steve Adler, a Democrat.
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