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Federal Judge Freezes California College Town’s Anti-Homeless Law
The judge said the city of Chico s half-baked airport shelter built during the heat of summer won t cut it.
The Robert T. Matsui U.S. Courthouse, home of the Sacramento division of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. (Photo via Rojer Wisner/Wikipedia Commons)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) Racing to erect an emergency shelter for its burgeoning homeless population, a quintessential college town in Northern California turned to an unused airport tarmac.
Like California’s largest cities, the city of Chico is struggling mightily in solving its homelessness crisis and giving unhoused people a decent place to stay. Frustrated by the increasing number of people sleeping near the university and pitching tents in the city’s renowned park during the Covid-19 pandemic, elected leaders decided to crack down on camping within city limits.