I can name two successes that Robert Norse can say that he helped with:

1) The modification of the no-sitting-on-the-sidewalk law passed in 1994 and vigerously protested by lots of people. It is now legal to sit on at least some portion of the sidewalk in Santa Cruz.

2&3) The failure to pass the 3rd street realignment Beach/South of Laurel Plan in 1998-1999. This was concurrent with the election of Sugar/Krohn/Fitzmaurice to the city council, who at one point were poised to enact safe sleeping zones until Katherine Byers bowed out at the second reading of the ordinance.

Since 2000 or so Robert and HUFF have been basicly stonewalled by the city council, while watching increasingly repressive laws pass and while watching no parking signs from midnight to 6 AM get posted throughout the city.

A federal lawsuit to overturn the sleeping ban is being planned. This may be the only way out at this point.