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
@grrlscientist Homelessness bans are not enforceable. Period. These people don’t have money, so fines are worthless. Locking them up? Really? We’ll have jails full of street people on the taxpayer’s dime? Are we going back to debtors’ prisons? I don’t know how SCOTUS will rule on this, but I suspect Grant’s Pass will get the go-ahead to do something punitive. Yes, I agree, those towns would like the homeless among us to just go away - either die or become another town’s problem.