At Los Angeles City Hall, everything is suddenly up in the air.
With Mayor Eric Garcetti again in the running for a post in the Biden administration this time as U.S. ambassador to India politicians, bureaucrats, activists and others are trying to figure out what a mayoral departure would mean for the city and its most pressing issues.
An early exit could reshuffle the race to replace Garcetti in next year’s election. And it would likely trigger another, behind-the-scenes competition for the post of interim mayor a choice that would be up to the City Council.
“It’s going to have a ripple effect,” said Loyola Law School professor Jessica Levinson, “not just in terms of who Garcetti’s successor would be but how that would affect the race for mayor, who on Garcetti’s staff stays and goes and, perhaps most importantly, what happens to the mayor’s initiatives and goals.”
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The city and county of Los Angeles may have a strong case as they seek to overturn a sweeping federal judicial order requiring them to offer shelter to everyone on skid row, legal analysts who have followed the case say.
The city and county have asked for the order to be stayed until the appeal is heard by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A stay would freeze the order from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter, including the requirement that the city put $1 billion in escrow to pay for the clearance, until the appeal was decided.
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Apr 23, 2021 - 09:20 PM
A Los Angeles federal judge on Tuesday ordered the city and county to offer some form of shelter or housing to the entire homeless population of skid row
by October, according to the
The order by Judge David O. Carter - a preliminary injunction granted to plaintiffs in the case last week - also requires the city and county to offer
single mothers and their children on skid row a place to stay within 90 days, help families within 120 days before the Oct. 18 deadline for the rest of the homeless population in the area. The city must also put
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LOS ANGELES
Racism, corruption, and inaction by Los Angeles city and county officials have caused a massive homeless problem, and intervention by the courts is the only way to ensure that people are provided with shelter, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled.
Judge David Carter issued a withering 109-page order Tuesday, accusing Los Angeles bureaucrats of raking in billions of tax dollars without any real results to stem the tide of homelessness that increases by double digits each year. The judge has now taken control of the city s and county’s homeless abatement efforts and ordered housing for the entire Skid Row population of 4,600 by October.
Every homeless person on Skid Row must be offered housing by October 18
Single women and unaccompanied children must be offered a place to stay within 90 days of the order
Families, meanwhile, must be offered a place to stay within 120 days
Those who accept the offer must be provided support services by the county
The city is being ordered to put $1 billion in escrow to tackle the problem
Earlier this week, Mayor Eric Garcetti proposed $955 million for the problem in his budget
If the city and county comply, enforcement towards removing tents from the streets and sidewalks of the neighborhood can continue