The scale
Nearly 7,900, in one night
The 2024 point-in-time count is a snapshot, and a likely undercount, but it is the official figure, and it is the highest in a decade.1
An Initiative . Clark County Commission . District E
Homelessness & Safety.
A crisis at a ten-year high, neighborhoods that deserve to feel safe, and people who deserve a way off the street. The honest answer needs both compassion and accountability.
This page treats a hard subject straight. The figures below are sourced and footnoted, with their dates, and every law is matched to the government that actually passed it. Homelessness here is regional, shared by the county and the cities, and policed by a merged Metro department. Manny's plan, and the honest limits of the office, are at the end.
7,906
Counted on a single night, 20241
53%
Of them unsheltered1
10-year
High, up 20% in a year1
4 + 1
Governments, plus the regional coalition2
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The Initiative . Six Parts
Pick a door in.
Read it top to bottom, or jump to what you came for. Every figure is sourced, and every law is matched to the government that passed it.
Part I
The Crisis
Nearly 7,900 people counted on a single night, a ten-year high, more than half of them unsheltered.
Part II
Who Handles It
It is regional. The county, three cities, and a coalition of agencies share the response. No one runs it alone.
Part III
The Honest Answer
Enforcement only works paired with somewhere to go. The county's own ordinance requires offering a bed first.
Part IV
What The County Can Do
Fund beds, outreach, and services, and help fund Metro. It does not run the police day to day.
Part V
Manny's Plan
Beds and outreach paired with humane enforcement, and quarterly public reporting by area.
Part VI
Get Help Now
If you or someone near you needs help today, the real numbers to call are here.
I . The Crisis
Real, and getting worse.
This is not a talking point. It is people on the street, and it is growing.
On a single night in January 2024, the regional count found 7,906 people experiencing homelessness across Southern Nevada, a ten-year high and a 20 percent jump from the year before.1 More than half, about 53 percent, were unsheltered, meaning they were sleeping outside, in cars, in washes, or in places not meant for people.1
Behind that number are two truths that have to be held at once. People living unsheltered are in real danger, of weather, illness, and violence, and they deserve a way off the street. And neighborhoods, parks, and small businesses dealing with encampments deserve to feel safe and cared for too. A serious plan does not pick one of those. It does both.
The danger
More than half unsheltered
About 53 percent had no shelter at all on the night of the count. Unsheltered homelessness is the most dangerous, and the most visible.1
The direction
Up 20% in a year
The one-year jump is the part that should worry everyone. Whatever the valley is doing, it is not yet keeping pace with the problem.1
The stakes
Two things at once
People deserve a way off the street, and neighborhoods deserve to feel safe. A real plan refuses to choose between them.
The caveat
A likely undercount
A one-night census misses people who are hidden, mobile, or doubled up. The real number is almost certainly higher than 7,906.1
The connection
Tied to the cost of housing
When rents climb and homes run short, more people fall into homelessness. This issue and affordability are the same fight.
Numbers can make a crisis feel abstract, so hold onto the human version. Nearly four thousand people had nowhere to sleep on the night of the count, in a county with one of the harshest summers in the country. That is the reality a serious plan has to answer, alongside the reality of a family that no longer feels safe walking through their own park. Both are true. Both deserve a response.1
II . Who Handles It
No one runs this alone.
Before you can fix the system, you have to understand it. Homelessness in Southern Nevada is a regional, shared responsibility, not the job of any one mayor, commissioner, or city.
The response is coordinated by the Southern Nevada Homelessness Continuum of Care, known as Help Hope Home, a coalition of the county, the cities of Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson, and dozens of agencies and nonprofits.2 That regional structure is why no single official can honestly promise to "end homelessness" on their own.
Clark County's piece is real and specific. The county runs Clark County Social Service, which operates the region's coordinated entry, the single front door into housing help, and funds programs like LINK street outreach with HELP of Southern Nevada and STAR rehousing and supportive housing.3 The county also runs a CARE outreach team that pairs public safety officers with social workers to connect people in county parks to services.4
The coalition
Help Hope Home
The regional Continuum of Care coordinates the county, three cities, and dozens of agencies. The system is shared by design.2
The county's door
Coordinated entry
Clark County Social Service runs the single front door into housing help and the programs that move people toward stability.3
The county's team
CARE outreach
The county's outreach pairs public safety officers with social workers to connect people in county parks to real services, not just move them along.4
The partners
Nonprofits do the work
Groups like HELP of Southern Nevada run the shelters and outreach the county funds. The county pays for and coordinates much of it; the providers deliver it.3
Why spell out the plumbing? Because the loudest promises on this issue come from people who either do not know how the system works or are counting on you not to. A commissioner is a powerful funder and coordinator inside that system. A commissioner is not a one-person fix for it. Knowing the difference is how you judge who is being straight with you.2
III . The Honest Answer
Enforcement only works with somewhere to go.
This is the part that gets shouted about and rarely explained. So here it is, plainly, with the laws attributed to the governments that actually passed them.
There are two separate camping laws, and people constantly mix them up. The City of Las Vegas passed its camping ban in 2019.7 Then, in November 2024, the Clark County Commission passed its own ordinance on a 6-to-1 vote, taking effect February 1, 2025, after the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 Grants Pass decision gave local governments more room to enforce.58
Here is the part worth understanding. The county's ordinance was written with a guardrail: a person must be warned and offered an available bed first, and cannot be arrested if there is no bed available or during a mental-health emergency.5 That is the honest design. But it exposes the real bottleneck. When the ordinance took effect, the commission chair acknowledged there were not enough beds for everyone unhoused.6 An enforcement tool that depends on an open bed is only as good as the number of beds.
The whole point
The argument is not enforcement versus compassion. It is that you cannot have one without the other.
You cannot fairly ask someone to move along if there is nowhere for them to go, and you cannot keep a neighborhood safe by pretending the encampment is not there. The county's own law already says a bed has to be offered first. So the real work, the work a commissioner can actually move, is making sure those beds and that outreach exist in the numbers the law assumes.56
That is why this page treats "more beds and outreach" and "consistent, humane enforcement" as one plan, not two camps. Build the capacity, then the rules are fair. Skip the capacity, and enforcement is just moving suffering around the corner.
A person must be warned and offered an available bed before enforcement, and cannot be arrested if no bed is available.The Clark County camping ordinance, effective February 20255
Read that guardrail again, because it settles the whole argument. The law the county already passed assumes a bed exists to offer. So the real question for a commissioner is not whether to be tough or kind. It is whether the beds and outreach exist in the numbers the law requires. Fund that, and the rest of the debate mostly takes care of itself. Skip it, and no ordinance on paper will make a difference on the street.56
IV . The Levers
What a commissioner actually controls.
A commissioner does not run the police. Here is what the seat does do.
Honesty matters most on the hardest issues. A county commissioner does not run Metro day to day, that is the elected Sheriff, and a commissioner is one of seven votes on the board. What the seat controls is the money and the coordination behind the response.
What the county controls
- Funding shelter and stabilization beds, outreach, and social services.3
- Operating coordinated entry and the county outreach team.34
- Passing county ordinances, including the 2024 camping law.5
- Allocating county budget and federal relief dollars.10
- Helping fund Metro through the budget committee and the local public-safety tax.9
- Coordinating with the cities through the regional coalition.2
What it cannot do
- Run LVMPD day to day. Metro is led by the elected Sheriff.9
- Act alone. A commissioner is one of seven votes.
- End homelessness unilaterally. The response is regional and shared.2
- Pass a City of Las Vegas law, or vice versa. The jurisdictions are separate.7
On policing specifically, the county's role is real but partial. LVMPD is a merged county-and-city department headed by the elected Sheriff, and its budget runs through a Fiscal Affairs Committee that includes county commissioners alongside city council members.9 A commissioner can fight for the funding that keeps officers on the street. A commissioner cannot, and should not pretend to, command the department.
V . What's Been Done
Real effort, real gaps.
The county and the region have not been idle. Money has gone out, programs exist, a law was passed. The honest assessment is that it has not yet been enough, and the count proves it.
Federal dollars
Relief and housing money
The county's 2022 relief plan recommended millions for housing the unhoused and for rent and utility help, part of about $440 million in federal relief funds.10
Regional grants
Federal homelessness grants
The regional coalition won roughly $15 million in federal Continuum of Care grants in 2023 for rehousing, case management, and services.11
The law
A bed-first ordinance
The 2024 county camping ordinance requires a bed be offered before enforcement, a humane design that only works if the beds exist.5
The gap
Not enough beds
The commission chair acknowledged there were not enough beds for everyone unhoused when the law took effect. The count hit a ten-year high. The gap is the work.16
$440M
Federal relief received10
~$15M
Regional homeless grants, 202311
2024
County camping ordinance passed5
Beds
The missing ingredient6
VI . Manny's Plan
Beds and outreach. Fair enforcement. Public scoreboards.
Compassionate and firm. Both, on purpose.
Manny is a candidate, not yet a commissioner, so these are his proposals, not actions he can take today. His approach refuses the false choice. Pair real shelter and stabilization beds and genuine outreach with consistent, humane enforcement, and report the results in public so residents can see whether it is working.
Step 1
Build the beds first
Fund the real shelter and stabilization beds the county's own law assumes, so outreach has somewhere to take people and enforcement is fair.
Step 2
Outreach that connects
Strengthen teams that move people from the street into stability, mental-health and addiction help included, not just sweep them to the next block.
Step 3
Consistent, humane enforcement
Apply the bed-first rules evenly so neighborhoods, parks, and businesses are protected, and so the rules are fair to the people they reach.
Step 4
Report by area, every quarter
Publish progress by neighborhood, District E hotspots included, so residents can see whether unsheltered homelessness is actually falling.
Step 5
Fund the officers, fairly
Use the seat's real budget role to keep Metro staffed for neighborhood safety, without pretending a commissioner runs the department.9
Step 6
Work the region, not the headline
Coordinate beds and outreach with the cities and the coalition, because the crisis crosses every line on the map.2
A fair word on the limits. A commissioner is one vote of seven, cannot run Metro, and cannot end a regional crisis alone. What Manny offers is a standard for the seat: fund the beds and outreach, support the officers who keep neighborhoods safe, enforce humanely, and put the numbers in public where everyone can judge them.
The Yardstick
How you would check the work.
Compassion and toughness are easy to claim. Here is what real progress on homelessness and safety would actually look like, quarter over quarter.
Unsheltered . the count trending down, not up
Beds . capacity that meets the need
Off the street . people moved into stability
By area . progress reported neighborhood by neighborhood
Safety . neighborhoods and parks that feel safe again
In the open . the numbers published every quarter
Treatment . mental-health and addiction connections made
Repeat . fewer people cycling back to the street
Coordination . county and cities aligned, not siloed
Dignity . people treated as people, not a problem to move
The point-in-time count already exists. So do bed-capacity numbers and outreach contacts. The job is to publish them against a target, by area, so residents can tell the difference between a plan that is working and one that is only being announced.1
The Standard
What a serious plan requires.
Bigger than any one sweep or any one shelter. This is the test Manny would hold every homelessness and safety decision to.
Principle 01
Beds before sweeps
Enforcement is only fair when there is somewhere to send people. The county's own law says so. So the beds have to come first, or with the rules, not after.5
Principle 02
Treat the cause
Mental health, addiction, and the cost of housing put people on the street. Outreach that connects people to real help does more than moving them along.
Principle 03
Neighborhoods count
Safe parks, schools, and small businesses are not optional. A plan that ignores the people living next to an encampment is not a serious plan.
Principle 04
Humane and even
Apply the rules the same way everywhere, with the bed-first guardrail intact. Consistency is what makes enforcement fair instead of cruel.5
Principle 05
Report by area
Publish progress neighborhood by neighborhood, every quarter, so residents can see whether unsheltered homelessness is actually falling where they live.
Principle 06
Coordinate, don't grandstand
The response is regional. Work with the cities and the coalition instead of scoring points. The crisis does not stop at a city line.2
The Right Questions
What a commissioner should be asking.
Accountability starts with the questions you put on the record. These are the ones Manny would ask, every quarter.
On beds
How many beds do we have, versus need?
If the county's own law requires offering a bed first, the bed count is the number that decides whether the law works at all.56
On the count
Is the unsheltered count falling?
Not the budget spent, not the programs announced. The number of people sleeping outside, tracked over time, by area.1
On outreach
How many got into stability?
Of the people outreach teams contacted, how many actually moved into shelter, treatment, or housing, not just a different block.3
On safety
Are neighborhoods seeing the difference?
Parks, schools, and commercial areas in District E hotspots: are residents and businesses reporting that it is getting better, by area.
On the money
What did the relief dollars buy?
Of the federal money committed to housing the unhoused, how many beds and units actually opened, and how many people are in them.10
On coordination
Are we working with the cities, or around them?
The system is regional. Is the county aligning beds and outreach with Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, and Henderson, or duplicating and finger-pointing.2
Plain Words
The terms, in plain English.
This subject hides behind acronyms. Here is what they actually mean.
- Point-in-time count
- A one-night, once-a-year census of people experiencing homelessness. The 2024 count found 7,906, a likely undercount but the official figure.1
- Unsheltered
- Living somewhere not meant for people, outside, in a car, in a wash. The most dangerous form of homelessness, and about 53 percent of the count.1
- Continuum of Care
- The regional coalition, here called Help Hope Home, that coordinates the county, the cities, and the agencies that respond to homelessness.2
- Coordinated entry
- A single front door into housing help, so people are not bounced between agencies. Clark County Social Service runs it locally.3
- Stabilization beds
- Shelter and bridge housing where someone can stabilize before moving into permanent housing. The capacity the county's own law assumes exists.5
- Rapid rehousing
- Short-term rent help and case management to move someone off the street and into housing quickly. One of the county's STAR programs.3
- Camping ordinance
- A local law limiting sleeping or camping in public spaces. The City of Las Vegas passed one in 2019; Clark County passed its own, bed-first version effective 2025.57
- LVMPD (Metro)
- The merged Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, led by the elected Sheriff, with a budget set by a committee that includes county commissioners.9
- Grants Pass decision
- A 2024 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that enforcing public-camping bans does not violate the Eighth Amendment, which gave local governments, including Clark County, more room to enforce.8
- Bed-first requirement
- The guardrail in the county's ordinance: a person must be warned and offered an available bed before enforcement, and cannot be arrested if no bed is open.5
- Fiscal Affairs Committee
- The body that sets LVMPD's budget. It includes the Sheriff plus county commissioners and city council members, which is how the county helps fund Metro without running it.9
- Permanent supportive housing
- Long-term housing paired with services for people with disabilities or chronic homelessness. One of the county's STAR programs.3
- Encampment
- A cluster of people living unsheltered in one place, often a park, wash, or underpass. Clearing one without offering somewhere to go simply moves it.
- Bridge housing
- Temporary housing that bridges the gap between the street and permanent housing, giving outreach somewhere to place people right away.3
- Project Homeless Connect
- Clark County's annual one-day resource fair that links people experiencing homelessness with dozens of service providers in one place.3
- HUD
- The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds the regional Continuum of Care and sets the rules for the point-in-time count.2
- Diversion
- Helping someone avoid homelessness in the first place, with a one-time fix or a family reconnection, before they ever hit the street. Cheaper and kinder than rehousing later.
- Bed gap
- The shortfall between the shelter and stabilization beds a community has and the number its outreach and enforcement actually need. Closing it is the core of this plan.6
Questions
Straight answers about homelessness and safety.
The things people actually ask, answered plainly and with sources.
Both, separately. The City of Las Vegas passed its camping ban in 2019. Clark County passed its own, different ordinance in November 2024, effective February 2025, which requires a person be warned and offered an available bed before any enforcement.57
Both, and they depend on each other. You cannot fairly ask someone to move if there is nowhere to go, and you cannot keep a park safe by ignoring an encampment. The county's own law already requires a bed be offered first, which is exactly why funding more beds and outreach is the real work.56
No, and anyone who says so is not being straight. It is a regional crisis shared by the county, three cities, and a coalition of agencies, and a commissioner is one of seven votes. What the seat can do is fund beds, outreach, and services, pass county rules, and demand public accountability.2
No. LVMPD is a merged county-and-city department led by the elected Sheriff. Its budget runs through a committee that includes county commissioners, so the seat can fight for police funding, but it cannot command the department day to day.9
The drivers are bigger than any one office, housing costs chief among them, which is why this is tied to the affordability fight. The count rose 20 percent in a year to a ten-year high, a sign the current response has not kept pace.1
The facts, figures, and laws are nonpartisan and sourced, with each ordinance attributed to the government that passed it. The plan at the end is Manny's. This page is published by the campaign as voter education, with the committee disclaimer in the footer. For more on the area, see the District E field guide.
Under Clark County's 2024 ordinance, a person camping in public must be warned and offered an available shelter bed before any enforcement, and cannot be arrested if no bed is available or during a mental-health emergency. It is humane on paper, and it only works if the beds exist.5
A mix: county budget, federal relief dollars (part of about $440 million the county received), and roughly $15 million in federal homelessness grants the region won in 2023. The question is less whether money exists and more whether it is buying enough beds and outreach fast enough.1011
The unsheltered count falling, beds keeping pace with need, people actually moving into stability, and neighborhoods reporting they feel safer, all published by area every quarter. That public scoreboard is the heart of Manny's approach.1
Myth vs Reality
Four things people get wrong.
No subject collects more easy answers. Here are four of the most common, and what the sourced picture shows.
Myth
"Just arrest your way out of it."
Reality: the county's own ordinance requires a bed be offered first, and bars arrest when no bed is open. Without beds, enforcement only moves people around. The beds are the bottleneck.56
Myth
"Just give everyone housing, problem solved."
Reality: housing is essential, but mental health, addiction, and a count rising 20 percent in a year mean outreach and treatment have to come with it. One lever alone does not do it.1
Myth
"The commissioner controls the police."
Reality: LVMPD is a merged department led by the elected Sheriff. A commissioner helps set its budget through a committee, but does not run it.9
Myth
"One official can end homelessness here."
Reality: it is a regional crisis shared by the county, three cities, and a coalition. A commissioner is one of seven votes. Honest plans say so.2
Myth
"It's not really getting worse."
Reality: the 2024 count was a ten-year high, up 20 percent in a single year. Whatever is being done, it is not yet keeping pace with the problem.1
Myth
"The camping ban already fixed it."
Reality: a law is not a bed. The ordinance requires offering shelter that, by the chair's own account, did not yet exist in the numbers needed. The capacity is the unfinished work.6
Close To Home
What this means for District E.
This is not an abstraction in the east valley. District E's neighborhoods, parks, and commercial centers are exactly where unsheltered homelessness and the call for safety meet.
District E covers working neighborhoods across Paradise, Sunrise Manor, Whitney, and Winchester.12 These are the parks where families want to feel safe, the commercial corridors that need foot traffic, and the streets where people without shelter are most visible. The county's outreach teams focus on county parks, which puts this district squarely in the middle of both the need and the response.4
That is why Manny ties this issue to affordability and to revitalizing the Commercial Center. Beds, outreach, safe parks, and a fair shot at housing are one fight, and District E is where it is fought. To understand the district, read the District E field guide.
The Bigger Picture
Refuse the false choice.
Strip away the shouting and the whole debate collapses into one honest sentence: you cannot help people off the street without beds and outreach, and you cannot keep neighborhoods safe by pretending the problem is not there.
The loud version of this issue forces you to pick a team. Compassion or order. Help or enforcement. It is a false choice, and it is why the count keeps climbing while everyone argues. The county already wrote the honest answer into its own law: offer a bed, then enforce. The only thing missing is enough beds and enough outreach to make that promise real.
If we do both
- Fewer people sleeping outside, with a real path to stability.
- Parks and commercial centers that feel safe again.
- Enforcement that is fair because there is somewhere to go.
- A count that finally starts to fall, reported by area.
If we keep choosing sides
- Sweeps with nowhere to send people, and the camp returns.
- Neighborhoods told their safety is somebody else's problem.
- Money spent, programs announced, count still rising.
- More heat, less help, another year lost.
Manny's whole case on this issue is that the left column is achievable, and that the people selling you the false choice are the reason we keep landing in the right one. Fund the beds. Fund the outreach. Enforce humanely and evenly. Support the officers who keep neighborhoods safe. Put the numbers in public. That is not soft, and it is not heartless. It is just honest, and it is the work.
Get Involved
How to weigh in.
This is your neighborhood and your tax dollars. Here is the nonpartisan way to follow it and be heard, no matter who you support.
01
Watch the votes
Camping rules, shelter funding, and Metro's budget are decided in public at the County Commission and its committees. Agendas are posted by the county.9
02
Read the sources
Every figure here is footnoted, and every ordinance is attributed to the right government. Start with the Sources section and check our work.
03
Use the right line
For a person in crisis, the Get Help Now numbers connect to real services. For an emergency, always call 911 first.
04
Know your district
Confirm you live and vote in District E, and read the District E field guide for the full lay of the land.
The Short Version
If you remember five things.
The whole initiative, distilled. Each line is backed by the sources below.
The crisis
7,906 counted on a single night in 2024, a ten-year high, about 53% unsheltered.1
Who handles it
A regional system: the county, three cities, and the Help Hope Home coalition. No one runs it alone.2
The honest answer
The county's 2024 ordinance requires offering a bed before enforcement. The bottleneck is not enough beds.56
The limits
A commissioner funds beds, outreach, and Metro, but does not run the police and is one of seven votes.9
Manny's plan
Beds and outreach paired with humane enforcement, with progress reported by area every quarter.
That is the whole thing, without the shouting. Build the beds, fund the outreach, enforce humanely, support the officers who keep neighborhoods safe, and put the numbers in public. Compassion and accountability, on purpose, both.
Get Help Now
If you need help today.
This is a campaign page, not a government office, so for help right now these are the official lines. If anyone is in danger, call 911 first.
Emergency
9-1-1
For any immediate danger, medical emergency, or crime in progress, always call 911 first.
Metro non-emergency
LVMPD non-emergency line for non-urgent police matters in the Las Vegas area.14
Homeless services
Nevada 2-1-1 connects you to shelter, food, and housing help statewide. nevada211.org.13
County housing help
Clark County Social Service coordinated entry, the single front door into housing assistance.3
If you are reading this because of someone you are worried about, that instinct is the start of the help. Outreach teams, Nevada 2-1-1, and the county's coordinated entry line exist precisely to turn a phone call into a real connection. Save the numbers. Share them. They work better than walking past.
Sources & Method
Every figure, shown its work.
A sensitive subject deserves careful sourcing, and every law attributed to the right government.
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: the 2024 Southern Nevada point-in-time count of 7,906, a ten-year high, up 20 percent, about 53 percent unsheltered; and that no count was held in 2025. reviewjournal.com
- Southern Nevada Homelessness Continuum of Care (Help Hope Home): the regional coalition coordinating the county and the cities. helphopehome.org
- Clark County Social Service, homeless help: coordinated entry, LINK outreach, STAR rehousing and supportive housing, assessment line 702-455-4270. clarkcountynv.gov
- Clark County Office of Public Safety: the CARE outreach program pairing public safety officers with social workers. clarkcountynv.gov
- Las Vegas Review-Journal: Clark County Commission approves its camping ordinance 6-1 (November 2024), with bed-first and no-arrest-without-a-bed provisions. reviewjournal.com
- Fox5 Vegas: the county camping ban takes effect February 2025; commission chair notes there are not enough beds for all unhoused. fox5vegas.com
- CNN and the City of Las Vegas: the City of Las Vegas 2019 camping ban (a separate city law). cnn.com
- Las Vegas Sun: the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 Grants Pass v. Johnson decision and Clark County's response. lasvegassun.com
- LVMPD Fiscal Affairs Committee: Metro is a merged department led by the elected Sheriff, with a budget committee that includes county commissioners and city council members. lvmpd.com
- Clark County American Rescue Plan Act funds and 2022 recovery plan allocations for housing and the unhoused. nevadacurrent.com
- Clark County: roughly $15 million in federal Continuum of Care grants awarded in 2023. clarkcountynv.gov
- Clark County, District E composition (Paradise, Sunrise Manor, Whitney, Winchester, and part of the City of Las Vegas). clarkcountynv.gov
- Nevada 2-1-1 statewide health and human-services referral, including shelter and homeless services. nevada211.org
- LVMPD non-emergency line, 702-828-3111. lvmpd.com
How we handled the count. The latest official point-in-time count is from January 2024 (7,906, about 53 percent unsheltered). No count was conducted in 2025, and a 2026 count was scheduled but not yet published when this page was written, so we use the 2024 figure and say so.
Jurisdiction, carefully. The 2019 camping ban is a City of Las Vegas law. The 2024 bed-first ordinance is Clark County's. LVMPD is a merged Metro department led by the elected Sheriff. We label each one, because mixing them up is how this debate goes wrong.
Compassion and accountability. This page does not treat people experiencing homelessness as the enemy, or treat neighborhood safety as optional. Both matter. The honest position, and the county's own law, is that humane enforcement requires beds and outreach to exist first.
A note from Manny
Fewer people on the street. Safer neighborhoods. Both.
Outreach. Beds. Accountability.
I am not going to insult you with a slogan on this one. People are suffering on the street, and families are scared in their own neighborhoods, and pretending you have to choose a side is how nothing ever gets fixed. The county's own law already says you have to offer someone a bed before you move them. Fine. Then let us build the beds, fund the outreach, enforce it humanely, and put the numbers in public every quarter so you can hold me to it. That is the deal I am offering. Not a promise to make it disappear, a promise to do the work and show you the receipts.