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Land Use,
Government

Feb. 14, 2023

Oakland can’t move homeless from plot targeted for permanent housing

U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick renewed a previous temporary restraining order against the city moving people from an encampment on a parcel where the city plans to build permanent low cost housing.

Oakland can’t move homeless from plot targeted for permanent housing
Kevin Klee stands in water outside his home at the Wood Street homeless encampment during a winter storm in Oakland on Jan. 5. New York Times News Service

A federal judge in San Francisco ordered the City of Oakland to refrain from clearing a homeless encampment from a plot targeted for permanent low-cost housing until the city finishes construction of cabin shelters for about 60 people.

In his order issued on Friday, U.S. District Judge William H. Orrick renewed a previous temporary restraining order he had granted the plaintiffs on Jan. 6. Orrick conditioned the dissolution of that order o...

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