re: Would you support criminalizing homelessness?

You're probably just playing devil's advocate here, but here is why I do not support it:

1) Most importantly, being homeless in and of itself is not a crime. What you and someone else consider a home are two different things.

2) Being homeless can happen to anyone. Maybe you have family members who would be persistent enough to take care of you if you developed mental illness, but not everyone does.

3) Homeless people are already humiliated enough, why make them criminals?

4) You can't prove whether someone is technically homeless or not. Some guy could be crashing on his buddy's couch once a week.


You make references in your posts to homeless people being crackheads, or demanding money from people. These activities should be and are criminalized. So that should take care of those people for you. Why ask for the very act of not having a home to be a crime?