An appeals court decision against the southern Oregon city of Grants Pass shielded homeless people from “cruel and unusual” penalties — that is, being penalized for sleeping on public property when they had no other options. That could soon change depending on forthcoming Supreme Court arguments.
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Sometimes, sheters are not safe. PERIOD.
I've volunteered and worked with ppl since the 90s…
The fact that low lives punish homeless people for being homeless means we live in a failed nation and society doesn't deserve a hero
Capitalistic systems create homelessness. America is built by cruel and unusual
Maybe there would be homes for the homeless people in your local community if half of your citizens didn't decide they were going to rent out their homes to Airbnb trying to make huge profits on the backs of everyone else in your local community.
And now you want to punish them again.
Ship them to New York and Chicago.
They will get to live in 4 star hotels and they will get refillable debit card.
This is caused by our Government with open borders who going to hold Biden and Myorkas and Democrats accountable for this from open borders.
Sucks to be unhoused but lighting fires on people’s homes and vehicles, selling drugs, using the bathroom in the middle of the sidewalk.. there are a plethora of public health laws being ignored here to allow these things to continue. As a non unhoused person I have to pay $30/night for a campground and use a toilet, for example. San Jose is going to be fined for not following clean water laws by allowing homeless camps and trash to fill the creek beds. Diseases have now spread from these camps to the general population in the Bay Area. Just enforce the public health laws that are already on the books, start there. Also use eminent domain to take over vacant commercial space and convert it to affordable housing quickly
Thank God for this case. I hope it will put some restrictions on the drugs, trash & deterioration of our city's being overwhelmed . Without laws there can be no freedom. Way to stand Grant's Pass. Can u help Brookings stand up to BOEM, their steam rolling us & destroying our Ocean & community with giant floating wind turbines?
if they don’t have enough space for homeless people is the key phrase.
Seems like some of the tax-dodging billionaires could be tapped and we could have all the shelters we need…
Why are some people so against the richest of us paying a minuscule fraction of the vast wealth to help society???
Long ago, many ‘asylums’ closed due to lack of funding and droves of people who need mental help got funneled to nursing homes and the streets. It is a huge problem.
What are homeless people supposed to do?
Maybe the masters just want an excuse to put more people in their for-profit prison systems for the free slave labor…
It makes no sense to just sweep these people away as the problem itself when their presence on the freeways is merely a symptom.
We need to solve this problem.
The elite have succeeded to a terrifying degree in turning the dwindling middle class against “the poors”
This whole argument is just an outgrowth of many systemic problems that we are not seriously addressing.
Who cares about the American Homeless, but give murdering migrants free housing. Pre paid gift cards and a free education… WTF
"Homeless against their will"… Most of these DRUG VAGRANTS are not homeless against their will!!!!!
Everyone chooses to be homeless. It is a choice. Anyone that wants to works can get a job easily. Find a roommate or two. Two incomes in one household without kids can easily afford to rent nearby.
Everyone without kids chooses to be homeless. It is a choice. Anyone that wants to works can get a job easily. Get a roommate and with both working just move a few miles further away for cheaper rent.
They don't want to recognize the elephant in the room that rent is simply too high . They don't want to give death penalty to drug dealers to once and for all solve the drug problem, but they want to criminalize the homeless… What a twisted jurisdiction.
good!
In France it is considered cruel and unusual to leave the sick and disabled to languish on the streets!
What I find extremely infuriating is all the homeless camps along rivers and creeks. Every camp is a disgusting landfill garbage dump of filth and human waste and it always ends up in those rivers and streams and totally destroys the environment and pollutes and kills wildlife. If you throw a candy wrapper out the window of your car it's a $1,000 ticket but look at a homeless camp and take notice of how much litter and trash and filth they just throw everywhere and nothing gets done they face zero consequences for littering and dumping trash all over the freakin place.
A person has the right to proceed in life as a poor person, not to mention many do not concede in making others rich through rents. Time to move to Russia where someone can have a room with a bath for 200 hundred a month.
Its about time Society and its resources are for the lawful and productive
Homeless increased when we
stopped arresting vagrants
stopped enforcing immigration
stopped locking up the insane
stopped arresting drug addicts
3-4-24 8;35 pm im homeless on ssi no one wants to rent me a apt or small house i and those like me on fixed income can't afford 1500 to 3000 per month owners are changing and if owners see they can get more money for the same place I wont be able to pay more than 300 pr month go figure so many people are homeless now