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SCOTUS Upholds Outdoor Sleeping Ban

  • #Drug addiction
  • #Homelessness
  • #Legislation
SCOTUS Upholds Outdoor Sleeping Ban
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JUN 2024
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story last updated JUN 2024

The Spin

Left narrative

This decision criminalizes being homeless, and allows governments to take increasingly punitive and draconian actions against a vulnerable population. A coalition of politicians from across the spectrum seemingly endorses the notion that you can jail your way out of the housing crisis as they try to keep the homeless out of sight and out of mind. This ruling is unconstitutional and inhumane. We need real solutions to fix homelessness.

The New Republic

Right narrative

Homelessness is a pressing social issue, and rulings that have outlawed camping bans have hamstrung governments from taking action. Without a camping ban, many of those suffering from chronic homelessness have no incentive to enter shelters or treatment. Progressive judges left cities with no options as encampments, violence, and crime proliferated due to their bleeding-heart attitude, with even progressive leaders crying for change.

Washington Post

Political split

LEFT

RIGHT

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