The State - News from Dec. 31, 1987

A federal judge refused to stop San Francisco from placing homeless people in 33 residential hotels, which a lawsuit said were unfit for human habitation. At a hearing attended only by a city lawyer, and not by the two homeless men who filed the suit last month, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson refused to interfere in the city’s homeless program and said he was not sure the case belonged in federal court. But Henderson said the men were entitled to amend their suit to try to allege violations of federal civil rights laws at a later hearing. The suit said San Francisco’s homeless program provided only uninhabitable housing.