"... why we – the City, the County of Marin, service providers, etc. – don’t just force people ... to the above, emergency responders can and do cite people for alcohol-related offenses (e.g. public ... urination). The assumption is that we cite someone, they have to pay a fine, the cost is so great ... lead to arrests, fines or ABC and City business license revocations or suspensions. The Santa Monica ..."
In a post a few weeks ago, I shared that people experiencing homelessness typically fall into one of three buckets. At the risk of making some even broader generalizations, as the number of challenges a person faces increases (e.g. no job, loss of connection to family, addiction, mental illness, etc.), it becomes: Harder to establish...
