U.S. District Judge David O. Carter issued two injunctions, one forcing the immediate cleanup near freeways and a second, more extensive one that requires elected officials to immediately deposit $1 billion into escrow to be spent on housing and services and to clean up the downtown skid row area by October.

After a hearing that he warned was just a precursor to a more detailed autopsy of elected officials' efforts to ease the homeless crisis in Los Angeles, a federal judge on Wednesday issued a minute order saying he likely would reinstate an injunction that forces the city to immediately relocate people living near freeways.

The order came around the same time that the plaintiffs -- businesses, property owners and homeless people -- ...

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May 27, 2021

Judge warns he’ll revive order to remove homeless from near LA freeways

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