The primary water resource agency for Santa Clara County will consider sweeping homeless encampments along waterways.
Citing an increase in safety threats and environmental hazards, the primary water resource agency for Santa Clara County will consider an ordinance Tuesday that aims to reduce homeless encampments along county waterways.Homeless advocates, however, have called the proposed law inhumane and criticized it for criminalizing those experiencing homelessness.
A letter signed by leaders of nonprofit organizations PitStop Outreach, St. Joseph's Family Center, South County Compassion Center, Carry the Vision, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and MADDAD said in the absence of sufficient housing and shelter, the creeks offer the 'best of the bad options available.''Especially now, in the midst of a life-threatening heatwave, it seems inconceivable to contemplate barring sick and elderly people from sleeping in any cool spot they can find.
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