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Sweeps Of Homeless Camps In California Aggravate Key Health Issues

Norm Ciha says he lost his bedding, clothes and the medicine he'd been prescribed to treat hepatitis C during a sweep of his camp outside an Ikea in Emeryville, Calif., in November 2018. Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News hide caption

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Sweeps Of Homeless Camps In California Aggravate Key Health Issues

Kaiser Health News

January 10, 2020 • Cities have tasked police and sanitation workers with dismantling homeless camps that they say pose a risk to health and safety. But that's meant some displaced people are losing needed medications.

Supreme Court Won't Hear Case On Ban Against Homeless Sleeping In Public Spaces

San Francisco police officers wait while homeless people collect their belongings. Nearly a quarter of the country's homeless population lives in California. Ben Margot/AP hide caption

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Supreme Court Won't Hear Case On Ban Against Homeless Sleeping In Public Spaces

December 16, 2019 • The denial upholds a lower court ruling that put severe limits on cities' ability to enforce anti-camping ordinances on streets and in public rights of way. Advocates for the homeless lauded the move.

Las Vegas Bans Sleeping, Camping in Public Places

Under Las Vegas' new law, people found sleeping in public areas affected by the rules could face up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. Isaac Brekken/AP hide caption

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Las Vegas Bans Sleeping, Camping in Public Places

November 7, 2019 • Homeless activists swarmed the Las Vegas City Council chambers chanting, "Housing, not handcuffs!" The mayor said the measure is necessary in order to address a homeless problem that is not abating.