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Grants Pass, Ore. — For more than five years, Helen Cruz lived on the streets of Grants Pass, Oregon. A small, rural town of roughly 40,000 people, the city has now found itself at the center of a homeless crisis plaguing major cities across the United States. “We’re in this situation not because we want to be. We’re in this situation because we don’t have a choice right now,” Cruz, 49, said in an interview.
” Newsom filed an amicus brief supporting Grants Pass and arguing that rulings in other courts that have banned anti-camping ordinances have “paralyzed” cities and effectively blocked them from moving people off public streets. Local officials in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix are also among those asking the Supreme Court to overturn the appeals court. In San Francisco, for instance, the city is currently embroiled in its own lawsuit over the clearing of homeless encampments.
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