Arm the homeless

Homelessness is illegal in the US.

Because the state mandates people have housing right?

There's a job guarantee at least, right...

Push down wages and drive up inflation.

Lock people out of basic housing.

Criminalize homelessness.

Cheap source of labor.

Profit!

I don't say this enough: Death to America.

The Constitution’s Eighth Amendment serves many important functions, but it does not authorize federal judges to wrest those rights and responsibilities from the American people and in their place dictate this Nation’s homelessness policy

just perfect double speak

Rather than criminalize mere status, Grants Pass forbids actions like “occupy[ing] a campsite” on public property “for the purpose of maintaining a temporary place to live.” Grants Pass Municipal Code Under the city’s laws, it makes no difference whether the charged defendant is homeless, a backpacker on vacation passing through town, or a student who abandons his dorm room to camp out in protes on the lawn of a municipal building.

just literally and unironically that_Anatole_France_quote.jpg

SCotUS wants Bell Riots 2024

never have I felt more deeply the truth of the "scratch a liberal" quote than reading reactions to this on west coast subreddits

"broken clocks" from "I care about the homeless but..." libs everywhere

welcome to the resistance, Justice Thomas

Politicians: “homelessness? Just genocide them all, lol!”

Also politicians: “we need to do everything in our power to raise property values! Muh invoosent must go to the moooooon!”

They know what they’re doing. They just want as many poor people dead as possible, they unironically want to live in a world with only billionaires.

Worth noting: shelters aren’t really an option, except for the people who want us out of sight.

Supreme Court... declares homeless people not protected from cruel and unusual punishment

As far as I can tell, this is a pretty significant misrepresentation of the ruling.

Johnson v. Grants Pass is a court case originally filed in 2018 that determined it is cruel and unusual punishment to arrest or ticket people for sleeping outside when they have no other safe place to go. The case started in Grants Pass, Oregon when the city began issuing tickets to people sleeping in public, even when there were not enough safe, accessible shelter beds.

The ruling from a lower court was that ticketing people for sleeping outside when they have no access to shelter constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, which the federal constitution prohibits. It looks like the Supreme Court decided took the opposite stance: that ticketing homeless people when there's no shelter available is not cruel and unusual punishment.

This is nowhere near a blanket ruling that "homeless people are not protected from cruel and unusual punishment." A comparison would be if a lower court said exposed toilets in jails constituted cruel and unusual punishment and the Supreme Court reversed. That's not saying prisoners can now be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment of any kind. It's saying that specific practice -- providing only exposed toilets in jail cells -- is not within the definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

This is obviously a bad ruling, but it is not anywhere near as bad as the headline claims. I don't think we do ourselves any favors overstating the severity of issues -- it's The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and the situation is bad enough that the actual facts are all we need.

look, how are we supposed to tell NIMBYs that all homeless people are criminals if we don't criminalize homelessness?

Seriously how can we protect this vulnerable group. I generally want to know if anyone knows what's been successful in other cities to 1) stop terrorizing/traumatizing them and 2) house them

In a 6-3 decision

What the fuck do they mean homeless people aren't protected from cruel and unusual punishments?

Something something reserve army of labor.

Land of the free