Elite California city set for mass illegal street vendor expansion as judge issues stunning verdict

Recent court rulings have forced San Diego to halt a city crackdown on street vendors that has been hailed for restoring ...
Mission Local

After a year, is the Mission street-vending ban working?

People continue to sell on Mission Street despite a vending ban that went into effect late last year on Thursday April 4th, 2024. Photo by Oscar Palma. Twelve months into the Mission Street vending ...
JSTOR Daily

Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. INTRODUCTION.: Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on ...

NYPD raids illegal NYC vendors again — but Canal Street businesses say it won’t change a thing

It’s an endless game of cat-and-mouse. NYPD cops on Sunday launched their latest raid on the illegal open-air marketplace of counterfeits that has long turned Canal Street into an unsightly nightmare ...
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City of San Diego, SDPD pause street vendor enforcement amid legal challenges

Just a few years after San Diego first enacted its sidewalk vending ordinance, the city said it’s paused enforcement.
Los Angeles Times

Street vending is legal in L.A. Getting a permit may be the worst decision this taquero ever made

Tacos, taco trucks and taco stands, or puestos, have defined the urban fabric of Los Angeles for the last 50 years. And while we celebrate and honor the tacos of Los Angeles — perhaps the most ...
City Journal

Street Vendors Are Merchants, Too

When Adam Smith warned about the “interested sophistry of merchants” in The Wealth of Nations, he was criticizing businessmen who sought government protection from competition in eighteenth-century ...

Street vendors cry foul as vending law remains on paper in Thiruvananthapuram

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: For street vendors in the capital, the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vending) Act, 2014 remains more of ...