Health Care & Hospital Law,
Government,
Civil Litigation
Apr. 10, 2020
Suit challenges LA’s housing of homeless in shelters in residential areas
According to the lawsuit, the shelter is an “incubator of disease” as a result of a “dangerously misguided policy” by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti when he announced last month plans to house the homeless in various centers across the city.
A lawsuit filed this week said the city and county of Los Angeles have put people at risk of COVID-19 infections by gathering homeless people into a recreation center in a residential area.
The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by John S. Durrant of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, said the city and county should be stopped from converting the Pacific Palisades Recreation Center into a homeless shelter three houses away from the home of ...
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