Grassroots: Criminalizing the Homeless Again
A Preview of an Upcoming Progressive Populist Column
This is a preview of my upcoming column in the Progressive Populist, for paying subscribers only. It focuses on recent efforts to use coercion and legal penalties to combat homelessness.
Criminalizing the Homeless Again
Homelessness should not be a crime, but that is how some municipal and state governments are treating it — using bans on camping in public to keep the unhoused out of public view, with some threatening fines and jail unless they seek help for substance abuse.
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