LOS ANGELES (CN) — Los Angeles was ordered to pay $1.8 million in attorneys’ fees to homeless advocacy organizations that took the city to court over its failure to comply with a 2022 settlement requiring it to create as many as 13,000 housing and shelter spaces for those living on the streets.
U.S. District Judge David Carter awarded $1.6 million in fees to the LA Alliance for Human Rights, an organization of business owners and residents that sued the city in 2020 to force it to address the intractable homelessness crisis that has left tens of thousands of people camping on the sidewalks or in parks.
The judge, a Bill Clinton appointee, also awarded $200,000 in attorneys’ fees to the Los Angeles Community Action Network and LA Catholic Worker, which joined the case as intervenors…