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Residents, advocates press council for emergency action on homelessness and hepatitis A
Summary
Multiple speakers at non‑agenda public comment urged the council to declare or act on a homelessness state of emergency, restore restrooms and sanitation services, and adopt housing‑first measures after speakers said a hepatitis A outbreak had sickened hundreds and killed people experiencing homelessness.
During the allotted non‑agenda public comment period on Sept. 12, more than a dozen speakers urged immediate and sustained action on homelessness and a hepatitis A outbreak that they said had sickened hundreds and caused multiple deaths.
Speakers described personal and professional experience working with unhoused residents and persons with disabilities. Anne Monash of Disability Rights California said the city’s…
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