Patrick Quinones is homeless in the middle of a pandemic. Now he's part of a group suing to halt San Diego from enforcing its ban on sleeping in vehicles.

• San Diego is facing litigation over the continued enforcement of its ban on sleeping in vehicles.
• Tristia Bauman, an attorney with the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, told Business Insider that the ban is a threat to public health.
• "We think it's especially so — and clearly so — during the pandemic, when everyone is instructed to shelter in place and to come into contact with as few human beings as possible," Bauman said.
• The latest ban was imposed in May 2019. "We will not allow the proliferation of 'van life' culture that takes advantage of San Diego's generosity and destroys community character," Mayor Kevin Faulconer said at the time.
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Patrick Quinones had a nice thing going on, splitting $1,000 per month rent on a loft in downtown San Diego. But nothing lasts forever, especially not when it is relatively affordable housing in Southern California. His landlord raised the rent to $1,600 over a period of 60 days.

Quinones first moved to a junkyard near the border. Now, like thousands of others in San Diego — the vast majority, local tenants who were priced out of their homes — he lives on the streets in the middle of a pandemic, according to an April 22 declaration he submitted as part of a lawsuit against the city.

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