The court's expected ruling will allow local authorities across America to crack down on encampments, while New York City moves to enable homelessness.
Without a credible threat of sanctions against public camping, officials have little leverage to induce people to take shelter beds when they are available.
Liberal or conservative, under what value system does jailing people for trying to stay warm constitute a crime? We hope the Supreme Court justices grasp the profound difficulty of truly solving
In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a "right" to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual victims of that crazy idea. Homeless advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union,