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Civil Rights

Feb. 12, 2011

San Diego Can Enforce Homeless Law

City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, who considers San Diego's homeless problem one of the worst in the country, is hoping that renewed enforcement of the illegal lodging law downtown will create an incentive to build more shelters.


By Pat Broderick


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN DIEGO - City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, who considers San Diego's homeless problem one of the worst in the country, said he hopes a court settlement allowing renewed enforcement of the city's illegal lodging law will create an incentive to build more downtown shelters.


"I live downtown," Goldsmith said. "I see them hollering on the street, I smell the urine. I've walked in...

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