Settlement

created a dangerous environment in the skid row area and beyond.

The plaintiffs settled with the city last June in an agreement approved by Carter.

In April, the judge — for the second time in five months — rejected the county’s settlement offer.

The county then attempted to delay proceedings while it prepared to appeal Carter’s denial to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, but Carter also denied that effort.

In its petition to the 9th

Circuit, filed in May, the county asked for a delay in proceedings and an order to compel Carter to vacate his April order, enforce the settlement agreement and dismiss the case.

The county argued in the petition that Carter’s “rulings and the court’s conduct are unprecedented. They are also clearly erroneous and exceed the bounds” of the district court’s authority.

In its order, the appeals court denied the county’s request for a writ of mandamus requiring Carter to grant its settlement agreement and permanently dismiss the case.

A tentative trial date was set in November.

The new proposal — which is expected to be the subject of a hearing in Los Angeles federal court Thursday — builds on an agreement between Los Angeles city and county whereby the city agreed to provide 6,700 housing or shelter beds for vulnerable people experiencing homelessness, especially those residing under freeway overpasses, and the county agreed to assist with $293 million in funding.

If Carter approves the settlement, he would sign off on dismissal of the lawsuit.

According to the results of a count conducted in January, 75,518 people were experiencing homelessness

in the county, and 46,260 in Los Angeles. The figures show an increase from 69,144 in the county last year and 41,980 in the city.

Weeks after declaring a local emergency on homelessness, the Board of Supervisors in February unanimously approved a $609.7 million budget for the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative for fiscal year 2023-24, the largest investment in any given year to prevent and address homelessness.

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass recently said that unhoused seniors are one of the “fastest growing populations” of homeless residents in the city.