The extremist majority of the Supreme Court has expanded a housing and affordability crisis that our justice system and social safety net are simply not equipped to solve. You can’t criminalize existence.
Allowing police to ticket or arrest people who are unhoused will only exacerbate the problem, as once you add an arrest record, getting a job or a home becomes that much harder.
Policy, politics and progressive commentary Though a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision gives cities more leeway to criminalize unhoused people for sleeping in public, Nevada municipalities have already enacted punitive measures in recent years.
I can’t imagine anyone (except Justice Thomas) thinking this makes and logical sense and that punishing a person for being an addict is similar to punishing someone for being depressed, or to harken back to another time,
The U.S. Supreme Court’s watershed decision on homelessness Friday will make it easier for elected officials and law enforcement authorities nationwide to fine and arrest people who live on streets and sidewalks,
Experts anticipate the ruling will influence homelessness policy nationwide, including in Vermont, where cities and towns are bracing for more people to lose their shelter over the next few months.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to side with a local ordinance in Grants Pass, Oregon that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors shouldn’t prompt local governments to adopt such laws, said Dan Siegel,
The ruling holds that state and local governments may enact total bans on encampments. Some California cities see an opportunity to enforce ordinances.
The Supreme Court decided on Friday that cities can enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outdoors in West Coast areas where shelter space is lacking.Stephan
Re “Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside” (June 28): If San Diego officials go forward with the staggeringly expensive Kettner homeless shelter after the
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that municipalities can enforce sit-lie and camping ordinances against homeless people. HPR's Ashley Mizuo reports how this decision marks a significant shift in the current regulations.
WASHINGTON – Advocates for homeless people in Arizona fear the Supreme Court has raised the risk of violence at the hands of police by upholding ordinances that criminalize sleeping in public places.
Bozeman city commissioners passed an ordinance last year regulating “urban camping” in the city, and based it off of two court decisions regulating homelessness in the western United States.