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U.S. District Judge David O. Carter’s order to Los Angeles officials to sweep homeless people off skid row into shelters or housing is grounded in his conviction that a wrongheaded focus on creating permanent housing has perpetuated racism, spread encampments and caused the avoidable deaths of Black people.
But the complexities of the lives of homeless people on skid row suggest that shelters may be, at best, an incomplete and unwelcome solution to the homelessness that has persisted in the 50-block district downtown for more than 50 years.
“They’re putting the smallest Band-Aid on a hemorrhaging wound,” said skid row activist and poet Suzette Shaw. “They don’t think we are real people.”
Oklahoman
Mayor David Holt s re-election campaign has raised $275,000 so far this year in what is already one of the most expensive mayoral races the city has seen.
Holt s 2018 campaign upped the total by transferring $25,000 to the 2022 committee. I’ve run for office three times before this, Holt said by text. The first time I ran for mayor it took four and a half months to reach $200,000. This time we took in almost $300,000 in two weeks, he wrote. I’ve never experienced anything like this. The support has been overwhelming.
Here are some notable facts from the campaign s first-quarter report:
• Donors include Matt Payne ($250) and Rachel Cannon ($1,000), co-founders of Prairie Surf Media, which recently reached a deal with Oklahoma City to convert downtown s former Cox Convention Center into a television and motion-picture studio.
Oklahoman
Oklahoma City Ward 8 Councilman Mark Stonecipher says it is time to revisit and revise the 2015 panhandling ordinance that was ruled unconstitutional by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver last summer.
Stonecipher commented after the U.S. Supreme Court denied the city s plea for a new hearing. A city council majority argued the ordinance was necessary to protect public safety, while critics said it criminalized poverty. The appeals court ruled it was an unconstitutional violation of free-speech rights.
Worth noting: Stonecipher, an attorney, suggested a revision in line with the 10th Circuit’s decision. In a concurring opinion and in footnotes, the appeals court judges said the council could have crafted an ordinance more closely aligned with the stated goal of enhancing safety for pedestrians in traffic medians.
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