re: SCOTUS poised to overturn ruling that declares homeless encampments a legal right

I never said I wanted that. I said you can’t give people 0 options except jail for being homeless. We should fund shelters to give people the ability to get out of homelessness and then you can lock people up if they are sleeping on the street.

Not sure where they should shite

But I don’t think shitting in the parking lot of a grocery store is the place

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I'm fine with raising my taxes

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As long as they only raise your taxes, I am fine with it too.

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were no shelters available

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Which is probably true.

Now, ask yourself the question, "why are there no shelters available?"

If you seek the answer to that question and be honest in your discovery - I think you will find that there ARE shelters, but they are being used for other purposes.

If homeless encampments are legal, then how can any zoning restriction or building code be legal?

Either a city can restrict what is built/exists or they can't.

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Imagine being put in jail because you can't afford a home and there is no shelter to house you

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Sounds like a resolution to them having no shelter.

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Why do you assume I don’t pay taxes? Why would you not want your taxes to take blight off the street? That’s wonderful that you give to charities and people in need btw

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You know you’re free to send more in taxes than you actually owe, right? And no, I don’t want my taxes to go to giving handouts to anyone, including welfare of any form. Government should not be in the charity business. That’s not what it’s for.

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Give them an area to encamp away from the public or fund homeless shelters and then im ok with the law.

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It's called San Francisco. They can go there.

That's why local government is the best kind of government, and it's why the Supreme Court giving back the local government the power to work for the citizens in their neighborhood streets is a good thing.

It's actually not nearly as many who are just, "down on their luck" as we like to believe - not like it used to be. Around 2/3 of the homeless have life long drug and alcohol use disorders, and that includes ones in shelters who have to follow rules. It's likely far higher for the homeless encampments on the street where there are no rules.

The exception shouldn't dictate the rule for a municipality that wants to clean up it's streets. What we've been doing isn't working, maybe this will be a catalyst to enacting some real change.

If not, then the 2/3 who don't like it and won't sober up to go into a shelter can leave and go to one of the Marxist (i.e., democrat) sanctuary utopian hellscapes where they'll be welcomed with open arms.

Just because a few really do deserve sympathy doesn't mean something shouldn't be done at all. I don't necessarily like the idea of it just like you, but I also don't like the idea an ideological, Marxist bureaucrat with a robe on telling millions of taxpayers hundreds of miles away that they can't clean up their city streets and open air drug markets. There has to be alternatives to what lower courts have saddled local municipalities with, and ultimately the fault lies at the feet of the homeless drug addicts for putting a target on their own backs. After 10 years of shitting and pissing in the streets, heavy drug use, and multiple narcan doses, there comes a point where it's time for a homeless drug addict to get his shite together and get off the streets. I promise you the nanny state won't let him starve in the shelter or go without top shelf, free healthcare.

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Imagine being put in jail because you can't afford a home and there is no shelter to house you. Essentially putting people in jail for being poor. I get that alot of those people are drug addicts and the undesirables of society but they are also also of good people down on their luck or who went through the broken foster care system. Idk just doesnt sit right with me locking people up for essentially being poor.

Give them an area to encamp away from the public or fund homeless shelters and then im ok with the law. Having no other option except jail just doesnt seem very humane.

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Have you seen homeless encampments? They are full of drugs, petty crime, violence, and rape. I hate the government and I hate laws, but goddamn these homeless generally have zero problems violating the social contract. Where were you when I had knives pulled on me, had my shite stolen, when crazy homeless become a threat to themselves and others?

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Imagine being put in jail because you can't afford a home and there is no shelter to house you. Essentially putting people in jail for being poor. I get that alot of those people are drug addicts and the undesirables of society but they are also also of good people down on their luck or who went through the broken foster care system. Idk just doesnt sit right with me locking people up for essentially being poor. Give them an area to encamp away from the public or fund homeless shelters and then im ok with the law. Having no other option except jail just doesnt seem very humane.

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Choices, everyone makes them…