In response to a lawsuit filed by several business owners and citizens in Los Angeles regarding the problems caused by the rise in homelessness in the area, a judge has ordered that the city and county offer all homeless people on Skid Row housing by the fall.
In a 110-page brief submitted on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge David Carter outlined the problems of homelessness and included extensive discussion about its connection to racism. “Through redlining, containment, eminent domain, exclusionary zoning, and gentrification—designed to segregate and disenfranchise communities of color—the City and County of Los Angeles created a legacy of entrenched structural racism. As shown most clearly in the present crisis of homelessness, the effects of structural racism continue to threaten the lives of people of color in Los Angeles,” Carter wrote.
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