August 23, 2023
The city of San Francisco urged the Ninth Circuit Wednesday to vacate an injunction barring the city from removing encampments of homeless individuals for being too confusing, while homeless advocates argued the injunction is necessary to stop the city from making bogus shelter offers as a pretext for criminalizing homelessness in the city.
July 10, 2023
The city of San Francisco said it has been fully compliant with a federal court order halting city workers from removing homeless residents from the streets until adequate shelter space is available and said that appointing a special master to the case would be unnecessary and a burdensome cost.
June 22, 2023
San Francisco hit back at a federal lawsuit accusing it of violating its homeless residents' constitutional rights, denying that it ever broke the law and asking for the suit to be dismissed on numerous grounds.
May 26, 2023
San Francisco has violated a court order as it continues removing homeless encampments from its streets despite a shortage of adequate shelter space, and a special master is needed to regulate the city's compliance efforts, according to a filing from advocates for the homeless.
May 24, 2023
A federal judge dismissed allegations about San Francisco's mayor and director of homelessness outreach from a lawsuit accusing the city of violating unhoused residents' rights, saying the claims against the officials went beyond the judge's previous instructions for amending the suit.
April 04, 2023
A California federal judge has halted San Francisco's attempt to stave off a preliminary injunction barring it from removing homeless individuals from public property as long as a shortage of shelter beds exists, saying the city hasn't presented adequate evidence proving that it had offered shelter to every homeless person prior to any displacement.
February 17, 2023
A group of housing advocates has asked a California federal judge to deny San Francisco's attempt to pause an order barring the removal of homeless people from public property, calling it improper and saying the city missed its chance to argue against the order.
January 10, 2023
A group of advocates for homeless people urged a California federal judge to not clarify a previous order that blocked the city of San Francisco from removing homeless people from public property if there's a lack of space in homeless shelters, arguing clarification isn't needed since the order is unambiguous in its intention.
January 04, 2023
The city of San Francisco called on a federal judge to clarify the terms of a preliminary injunction that bars removing homeless individuals from public property as long as a shortage exists of shelter beds.
December 16, 2022
San Francisco and an advocacy group will begin talks to settle the nonprofit's claims that the city is violating the constitutional rights of homeless people by tearing down encampments and taking their belongings, court filings show.