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SCOTUS poised to overturn ruling that declares homeless encampments a legal right
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:21 pm
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WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court seemed ready to let cities crack down on homeless encampments, after Monday arguments in which conservative justices questioned lower-court findings that ordinances restricting sleeping in public amounted to unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment.
The Oregon city of Grants Pass outlaws sleeping in cars parked on the street or in public parks with a blanket, but has no shelter able to accommodate the hundreds of homeless people who live within its limits. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, whose jurisdiction covers much of the Western U.S., found such measures effectively criminalized homelessness, violating Eighth Amendment precedent that forbids punishing people for their status rather than actions. Under that view, courts in the Ninth Circuit have issued injunctions that limit cities’ enforcement of such ordinances.
But on Monday, members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority suggested that the Ninth Circuit’s approach, which cities argue has hamstrung their efforts to address homelessness, intruded on the discretion local officials need to govern their communities.
This is good news
Hopefully more cities start cracking down on this tent bullshite. It’s an eyesore to look at.
Stay in a damn shelter if you don’t have a roof over your head.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:23 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Send 'em to Ukraine to fight the Russian horde and earn citizenship.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:26 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Stay in a damn shelter if you don’t have a roof over your head.
Shelters won’t let you in if you are under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:28 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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.
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.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:30 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
FL anticipated this and has come out gun blazing a couple of weeks ago against encampments and homeless sleeping in public.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:31 pm to BRbornandraised
Reopen psychiatric hospitals please.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:31 pm to BRbornandraised
Let them set up camp in your backyard. What a dumb take you have.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:32 pm to Deplorableinohio
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Let them set up camp in your backyard. What a dumb take you have
There wouldnt be a need for that if the state provided an area for them away from the general public or provide funding to shelters. Im fine with raising my taxes to fund more shelters and mental hospitals.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:33 pm to BRbornandraised
Go to bat for people that shite on the streets for every one to see
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:34 pm to BRbornandraised
doesn't help that jail is for profit.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:34 pm to BRbornandraised
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BRbornandraised
If you feel this passionate about it, then open your own homeless shelter on your property.
Problem solved.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:36 pm to Walt OReilly
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Go to bat for people that shite on the streets for every one to see
If you don't have a home, cant afford to patron an establishment to use their restroom, there are no public facilities to use the restroom, and no shelter.... where are you supposed to poop? serious question. Park restroom is my best bet but then again that the state providing those services that I said they should.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:37 pm to BRbornandraised
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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
The good people down on their luck aren’t spending their days and nights on the streets. They find churches, shelters, and charities to help them. I agree that they are in a bad position and could become one of the “undesirables” of society, but I wouldn’t say that the people making cities unsafe or dirty are those are upstanding people who just need an encampment on public and private property.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:38 pm to Darth_Vader
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If you feel this passionate about it, then open your own homeless shelter on your property.
Problem solved.
My family did just that for a family member when they were homeless during Katrina. Yall aint very christrian to not want to help the poor by funding shelters.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:41 pm to BRbornandraised
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if the state provided an area for them away from the general public
That wouldn't work in the real world though because they want access to drugs/alcohol and people who will give them money. This is also why shelters aren't a real solution, you have to follow rules.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:41 pm to sqerty
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Send 'em to Ukraine to fight the Russian horde and earn citizenship.
You don't make American citizens fight to keep their citizenship. If you're talking migrants however, I am ALL FOR mandatory military or civil service for two years to earn citizenship.
The crazies that are homeless Americans need to be thrown in newly resurrected looney bins.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:43 pm to nes2010
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That wouldn't work in the real world though because they want access to drugs/alcohol and people who will give them money. This is also why shelters aren't a real solution, you have to follow rules.
This I can understand. Thats why I said that I was ok with the law if they had the ability to go to a shelter. If they choose not to then lock em up. But you cant give them no option except jail.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Stay in a damn shelter if you don’t have a roof over your head
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has no shelter able to accommodate the hundreds of homeless people who live within its limits.
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:50 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
“Supreme Court to decide if cities can punish homeless people”
That the headline across the bottom of the screen on CNN right now.
I was in a bank and they had that on one of the TVs. Fuktard media.
That the headline across the bottom of the screen on CNN right now.
I was in a bank and they had that on one of the TVs. Fuktard media.
This post was edited on 4/22/24 at 4:55 pm
Posted on 4/22/24 at 4:50 pm to BRbornandraised
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BRbornandraised
What's your address? I'm sure you won't mind an encampment near you.
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