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It’s Judge Carter time at Downtown Women’s Center. Court is now in session. County supervisors Solis + Barger here. La CM’s Bonin, de León. La city atty Feuer
Today’s hearing, Carter says, predicated by 1383 homeless deaths in y2020 in la county. Today’s hearing is not so much about the 6k+ “beds” the city has promised to build.
Carter says today is about the disproportionality of minorities on he streets, and special attention to particularly vulnerabilities of unsheltered women.
He says court is considering “Any and all equitable remedies” for mass homelessness in LA. In recent court filings, Carter has alluded to active court intervention in policy. He’s asking what are the “outer limits” on the court’s power to act. See @meghanncuniff thread yesterday.
Carter invites @GoSkidRowGo to be first to brief. General Jeff welcomes all to skid row. Thanks @kdeleon and Judge Carter for some action during the recent rain (some tents and hotel rooms)
Calls @MayorOfLA a “lame duck” who didn’t even show up to hearing.
Calls @MayorOfLA a “lame duck” who didn’t even show up to hearing.
Page condemns @LAHomeless LAHSA as a failed system that “doesn’t even work... Doesn’t matter who’s leading that agency.” When he suggests disbanding it, the crowd assembled outside gates of parking lot cheers.
(It’s @MayorOfLA’s birthday btw. He’s over at @SCAGnews today, not here in San Pedro street in Skid Row.)
Oh @hughhewitt is also here?
@kdeleon now talking. “Not a problem that can wait another year.” Points out CD14 has more unhoused residents than Phoenix, Chicago and other major American cities.
Talking now about the “incident on Friday,” when an attempt to build some temporary tents to provide rain shelter got sandbagged by city politburo
KDL says he doesn’t think a consent decree is necessary yet. Champions further effort on electeds and court to find a “North Star” to guide city policy forward.
Yesterday CM @mikebonin wrote a medium piece where he did say a consent decree was needed: https://mikeboninla.medium.com/a-path-toward-progress-why-los-angeles-needs-a-consent-decree-db72fa788c21
Yesterday CM @mikebonin wrote a medium piece where he did say a consent decree was needed: https://mikeboninla.medium.com/a-path-toward-progress-why-los-angeles-needs-a-consent-decree-db72fa788c21
Can’t help but notice how across the st from the @DWCweb parking lot where everyone is assembled this morning is a six story loft building that appears mostly (but not totally) empty and has several “now leasing” signs on it.
Supervisor @HildaSolis speaking now. Calls holding this hearing on Skid Row “provocative,” and alludes to private discussion with Carter re: demographics of homelessness in LA
Solis speaking now about women have been unrepresented in most of the big top level discussion of homelessness. Describes pain of seeing widows & seniors on the street.
She underscores the scale of the issue. That she represents not just part of skid row but also people in living in river beds, and more. Any court effort needs to be more than just LA city.
Solis also noted “we’re looking at” how the old county general hospital in Boyle Heights could be repurposed to make 600-700 units.
She concludes she’d like to “avoid a consent decree.”
She concludes she’d like to “avoid a consent decree.”
Carter replies that a consent decree is a settlement that allows parties control over what happens (bc they have to agree to terms for a consent decree to happen). He continues that he’s looking past that, to what kind of (emergency) power might exist for the city + judiciary
This part will become more clear over next two weeks. Carter has invited BigLaw (and whoever else) to comment on the matter—to clarify how deep into the day-to-day operations of local government a federal court can involve itself.
