For now, San Francisco is still under an injunction barring the removal of homeless camps. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is now considering whether to keep that injunction in place.
Even before the hearing got underway, both sides were arguing their positions on how to deal with the city's homelessness crisis.
Others argued that allowing the homeless to languish on the streets is even more inhumane, and creates a hardship for everyone. "Let's not let one judge impact our ability to do what all San Franciscans want," said Breed. "They want clean streets. They want the homeless to be helped and that is exactly what we are trying to do!"
"When we filed this lawsuit the shelter wait list had 1,000 people on it," said Zal Shroff the attorney for the San Francisco Coalition on Homelessness.
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