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The Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places on Friday, overturning a California appeals court ruling that found such laws ...
A June 2024 Supreme Court ruling allowed cities to enforce bans on sleeping outside, but Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said she would instead focus on providing supportive housing. (Sarah A. Miller ...
The appeals court ruled 2-1 that Grants Pass, which is about 250 miles south of Portland, cannot “enforce its anti-camping ordinances against homeless persons for the mere act of sleeping ...
The homeless population increased by 22% from 2022 to 2023, and that number continued upward in 2024, with a 1.8% increase, according to The Community Shelter Board's annual "point-in-time" count ...
Other deaths included people struck by vehicles while attempting to cross the nearby freeways, and a homeless man sleeping in a blackberry thicket as it was mowed by workers. [180] The Jungle increasingly became a haven for criminals in the 2000s. [181] Criminal activity included assaults, rapes, prostitution, and murders. [182]
Homeless advocates say the court's decision in Grants Pass v. Johnson gives local governments a blank check to "to arrest or fine those with no choice but to sleep outdoors."
A federal judge in an Oregon court ruled in 2020 that due to the lack of shelter, punishing homeless people sleeping outside with makeshift bedding violated the Eighth Amendment. In 2022, the ...
The Supreme Court ruled Friday in favor of an Oregon city that ticketed homeless people for sleeping outside, rejecting arguments that such “anti-camping” ordinances violate the Constitution ...