San Francisco Seeks A Stay In Lawsuit Challenging Sweeps To Remove Homeless People From Streets

On January 18, 2024, the City Attorney of San Francisco filed a motion for a stay in a lawsuit to prevent the city from enforcing its laws prohibiting sitting, lying, sleeping, and lodging on public property against “involuntarily homeless individuals” if a specific offer of shelter is not made. The complaint, Coalition On Homelessness, et al. v. City & County Of San Francisco, was filed in 2022. On January 10, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction sought by the Coalition on Homelessness to prevent the city from conducting . . .