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Editorial: Is LA's anti-camping law getting homeless people off sidewalks and into housing? Let’s find out

A woman removes her belongings as Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau crew members clean a homeless encampment from the sidewalk along Hollywood Boulevard on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Los Angeles.

Nearly two years ago, the Los Angeles City Council passed a controversial ordinance that banned camping by homeless people near schools, day-care centers and parks as well as any other locations that council members wanted to decree off-limits. All they had to do was submit a resolution with a list of sites, provide some nominal reason for the ban and put it to a vote of the council, which almost

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