It’s early Friday morning and the details aren’t fully clear, but apparently the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that homeless people can be rousted from squatting in public places even if the city has no shelters for them.
This is exactly what we’ve been demanding for years. It’s a huge victory.
I’ll have plenty more to say about this next week. For now, let me just say that Oakland no longer has any legal excuse whatsoever to refuse to clean up our parks and other public spaces. Thao, Bas, Fife & Co. have hidden behind this excuse for years, but SCOTUS has now ripped off the fig leaf. We’ll be demanding the city get rid of every tent in every park in the city!!!
Steve Heimoff