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San Bernardino will resume removing homeless people from city parks, now that a court-ordered injunction against the city has been lifted.
Those cleanups are expected to start within the next few weeks, Mayor Helen Tran said during a news conference Oct. 2 in front of city hall.
“San Bernardino has been working for nine months to get this injunction lifted,” Tran told the gathering. “The (U.S.) Supreme Court has said homeless encampments can be restricted, and that’s what we’re going to do.
“It will be the city’s No. 1 priority.”
In August 2023, a lawsuit was filed that charged the city with disregarding the constitutional rights of three homeless people when those people were ordered to leave a city park. The city’s parks have become overcrowded with homeless people since the injunction went into effect in January, according to Tran.
The injunction was lifted after the city and the American Civil Liberties Union – one of the parties that filed the original lawsuit – reached an agreement under which the city will take better care of homeless people’s personal property when seeking to move them. The agreement also requires the city to better accommodate homeless people with disabilities.
I want to know when you move the people out of the parks where in God’s name do u think they’re going to go. I think I read that the governor allotted 11million dollars for the counties and I assume the city to help people that’s homeless is that money going to go to help the people you’re putting out of the parks. I think it so wrong that y’all are so quick to put the people out of the parks and some not all that’s the only place they got to lay they’re heads at night. I think some of you officials should try sleeping in them parks and you’ll see how hard it is to be out there with know where to go being etold u have to go somewhere else and you don’t know where that somewhere is. There’s a lot of people out there become these landlords are getting away with charging these outrageous rents and getting away with it. Start cracking down ont them and you’ll fix the homeless problem. You have people in them parks that can pay rent but the rents are to high MAYOR DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT!!! I voted for you because you said you would do something about this problem so use your infusance and help these people.
Thank You
I would like to know. Where are the homeless people in the parks suppose to go?