Northern California City Relaxes Homeless Rules Amid Federal Lawsuit

Published on April 17, 2024

The city council of San Rafael in Marin County, California, voted unanimously in a public hearing that ran late into Monday night, April 15, to approve a more relaxed version of its ordinance dealing with homeless camps and where they are allowed. The ordinance was originally approved by the council in July 2023 to help curb violence, crime, fires, and littering at an encampment dubbed “Camp Integrity” in the Mahon Creek area near James B. Davidson Middle School. Several days before the ordinance was set to take effect, a group of homeless residents represented by a local chapter of the California Homeless Union filed a lawsuit to block it in federal court. A judge tentatively granted their request and has since issued preliminary orders to limit certain aspects of the city ordinance....

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