'There are more homeless people in Sacramento than San Francisco,” the lawsuit stated. “Our community is at a breaking point.'
The tension in California’s capital city over its homelessness crisis has reached a boiling point as Sacramento’s top prosecutor has sued city leaders over what he says is a failure to enforce laws, allowing the crisis to become a public nuisance.
The lawsuit is not asking for money. Ho essentially wants the court to order the city to enforce its own ordinances, like banning daytime camping in public places and blocking sidewalks. The office said nearly 3,000 responses were received, though their methodology was not specified. Some of the reports from the survey included a girls' soccer game postponed because of hypodermic needles on the field and children having to walk through human feces and urine to get to school.
The homeowners also stated they’ve witnessed the inhabitants trespassing on their properties to masturbate, openly use narcotics and leave piles of feces. “People do drugs in our front yard,” explained Emily Webb. “We are losing sleep and exhausted from this stress of constantly being the squeaky wheel, begging for help from the city. We are beyond frustrated and we no longer feel comfortable or safe in our home or valued by our city.”
“This is a model for the people to stand up and hold their government accountable,” Ho said in an interview Tuesday, reported by the Associated Press. “All I’m asking is the city do its job.”
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