Mowrer will also argue that the RV laws make vehicles unusable for the purpose for which they were designed. "It will end up taking the property of these poor people since they'll get tickets and not be able to pay them. The City knows their vehicles will be towed."
He concluded, "We're still fighting and pushing on.... Our arguments are correct.... The court is going to have [to have] the courage to risk offending the powers that be, the Santa Barbara City Council, and those who support this law."
Contact the Committee for Social Justice's Legal Project at (805) 560-6062. Contact Homes on Wheels at (805) 866-4895.
For further information on challenges to these anti-homeless laws, see "Santa Barbara's Sleeping Ban Stumbles in the Courts," Street Spirit, June 2001; "New Blows Against the Santa Barbara Sleeping Ban," Street Spirit, September 2001; "Defender of Homeless Rights Wins Important Court Ruling," Street Spirit, February 2002; and "Taking Bigoted City Laws to Court in Santa Barbara," Street Spirit, April 2003.