Local mayors said unhoused people could soon face criminal penalties for turning down shelter.
Trash surrounds a homeless encampment at Columbus Park in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, June 28, 2024. In a decision eagerly awaited by officials across the Bay Area and beyond, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday that cities can clear homeless encampments even when those living on the street have nowhere else to go.
“Today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court provides state and local officials the definitive authority to implement and enforce policies to clear unsafe encampments from our streets,” Newsom said in a statement. Giovanni Rocco said he recently returned to a large encampment at San Jose’s Columbus Park after being told to leave a local shelter for leaving his dog unattended. Rocco, who’s trying to regain custody of his two young children, worries another shelter wouldn’t allow him to bring his 5-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter with him.“There’s gonna be a lot of people denying ,” added Juanita Macias, who also lives at the encampment with her son and husband.
Crucially, the decision also removed the shelter requirement established by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch, in the majority opinion, wrote that solving homelessness should be left to local officials, not the courts. “Today’s disappointing Supreme Court ruling may have put false solutions back on the table,” Brett Andrews, interim chief executive of the Bay Area homelessness solutions nonprofit All Home, said in a statement.
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