The city of Sacramento is being sued by the top prosecutor of its surrounding county for its refusal to remove people sleeping on the streets and sidewalks, claiming in a lawsuit that a problem that could have been contained has turned into a full-blown crisis in California's capital city.
The lawsuit, the first of its kind in the nation, is just the latest sign of mounting frustration over homelessness in the largely liberal state that has thrown millions of taxpayer dollars at the problem only to see it get worse, with sprawling encampments downtown, on freeways, and even outside of Gov. Gavin Newsom's office.
Ho pushed back and said he filed the 36-page lawsuit after receiving widespread complaints from people living and working in the area. Nearly one-third of the nation's unhoused people, more than 170,000, live in California, according to a statewide study released in June. Of those, 115,000 people sleep on the streets, in cars, in tents, or simply wherever they can find or fashion a makeshift shelter, according to a federal count of homelessness across the county last year.
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