Public Interest
Jan. 3, 2007
Court Steps Up to Protect Property of Homeless
FORUM COLUMN - By Michael Risher - The homeless in Fresno won a key victory against govrnment destruction of their property.
By Michael Risher
On Aug. 26, homeless people living next to a freeway in Fresno returned to their tents after breakfast at a nearby shelter to find their little community surrounded by police and city workers, accompanied by a bulldozer and garbage truck. The city was there to build a fence around this narrow strip of land, and the dozens of people who had been living there - i...
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