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Expert: Constitution allows LA to “commandeer” hotels for homeless housing

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LOS ANGELES - One day after a Los Angeles city councilman suggested that the city look at “commandeering” any hotels refusing to participate in housing the homeless during the coronavirus pandemic, a constitutional law expert tells FOX 11 that the city would be within its legal rights to take s such action. “If the city decides it needs to take hotels to house the homeless, the city, I think, will be able to do that,” said Professor Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley Law at UC Berkeley. “The Constitution says that the government can take private property for public use so long as it pays just compensation, the city, therefore, could commandeer a hotel for the homeless, but I think that would be confiscating for a period of time, and the

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