Los Angeles Votes To Limit Homeless People To Carrying Only A Trash Bin Worth Of Belongings

Voting for housing or mental health care, not so much. Story out of Los Angeles, California:

The Los Angeles City Council approved a law Wednesday to rein in the tent-and-tarpaulin encampments whose dramatic spread has raised the political stakes of handling one of the nation's worst homeless crises.

The ordinance -- a revised version of the law known as 56.11 that was adopted in June -- limits storage on sidewalks, parkways and alleys citywide to what homeless people can fit in a 60-gallon container, about the size of a city recycling or trash bin.

Skid row activists called the measure draconian and demeaning and warned that it could run up against federal opposition to criminalizing homeless people's status. Cont.

Story from - LA Times
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