Some areas of the UK are either starting to, or trying to, fine homeless people for rough sleeping. Absolutely disgusting behaviour, and counter-productive.
Yeah, exactly, I suspect it was being introduced to threaten them with prison and to then just shunt them off to be another local authority's "problem"
They end up with criminal records for not paying or appearing in court, and are rendered permanent street outcasts because they can't pass background/credit checks to get homes and jobs.
That’s how it used work. If you read the second half of Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London he spent a lot of time moving from one “spike” (homeless hostel) to another as the law of the land was that if you were homeless you needed to be moving “to find work”. In reality it was a closed loop
The grants pass argument is that there is a shelter available
The shelter is church run and requires that anyone staying attend their church services on Sundays
Idk how broad the scotus decision is but the specific grants pass case sucks because the state is mandating “go to church or else”
There's also not ever enough space for everyone in bed. And I'd bet dollars to donuts they'll kick you out if you're queer or they otherwise "disagree with your sinful lifestyle." Most church shelters are like that. And it's Grants Pass so probably racist as fuck, too.
But then clearly it was your fault for being bad and you have to get a ticket you clearly can’t ever possibly afford to pay or you wouldn’t be in that predicament in the first place, and then get all your stuff thrown in the trash
I guess the court expects all those claiming to be good Christians to step up and give a hand to those homeless.... The same good Christians that passed those anti-Homeless laws.
Tangential, but the charges that people arrested at the UCSD encampment faced included the same trash can encroachment statute that the City uses against unhoused people.
Anyone who makes themselves inconvenient to power in some way is just downgraded from human to annoying sidewalk trash can.
San Francisco as well. You can try to get into a shelter where you'll have to relinquish most of your possessions or leave them somewhere you hope they don't get stolen, or you can risk staying on the street and getting them run over by a bulldozer.
I think the homeless have some value to them, but only as a warning to the rest of us of what could happen if we stop working as hard as we can to prop up the capitalist oligarchs. Homelessness is a policy decision and a message, and the message is a threat.
Well you see, the Supreme Court is currently dominated by originalists, and the original function of the Supreme Court was to maintain the power of the slaveocracy.
