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L.A. council OKs law limiting homeless people's belongings to what can fit in a trash bin
The Los Angeles City Council approved a law Wednesday to rein in the tent-and-tarpaulin encampments whose dramatic spread has raised the political stakes of handling one of the nation's worst homeless crises. The ordinance -- a revised version of the law known as 56.11 that was adopted in June -- limits storage on sidewalks, parkways and alleys citywide to what homeless people can fit in a 60-gallon container, about the size of a city recycling or trash bin.
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Because homeless people already have too much. How horrible that instead of trying to not make them homeless, laws are enacted to control how they live on a street.
Will the City supply nice new trash bins specifically for the homeless to put their belongings in? That would be quite useful.
This is absolutely horrid.
Thanks for sharing this news though.