New Rules Dictate When Shelters Can Boot Homeless Residents

The city’s housing agency last month set new rules on when homeless residents can get kicked out of city-backed shelters, campsites and parking programs. For years, city-funded shelters established their own rules and the city didn’t track how many people they forced out. Then city officials learned that one of their foremost service providers was booting more homeless residents than others and disproportionately removing Black clients.

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