Allowing the government to fine & imprison people for being #homeless will do nothing to solve the nation’s #homelessness crisis. And it’s astoundingly cruel—as Sotomayor said, these towns seem to want homeless people to just “kill themselves.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/supreme-court-grants-pass-homeless-case.html
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Once upon a time, most poor people at least had a place to live. But in the 21st century, the cost of real estate / rentals is so absurd that today there's a a whole class of the poor who are homeless, who can't afford to live somewhere. And the people in charge have no interest in helping them, would rather rather resent them, when the obvious solution is to reduce the cost of rentals.