Florida Mayor Blasts Statewide Anti-Homelessness Law
A Florida law that criminalizes sleeping in public spaces and will take effect next month is expected to provoke a “tsunami of lawsuits”...
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Aug 132 min
San Francisco Adds Another Program to Bus Homeless People Out of Town
San Francisco does not have one program that puts homeless people onto buses and sends them elsewhere. It has three, reports Mission...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 52 min
Liberal San Francisco Mayor Vows Crackdown On Homeless Camping
The homeless men in tents on a sidewalk near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco knew that city crews were coming to clear them out, but...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 311 min
Los Angeles Defies Newsom's Push To Clear Homeless Encampments
Days after Gov. Gavin Newsom put pressure on local governments to dismantle homeless encampments across California, leaders in Los...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 252 min
Newsom Orders Officials To Dismantle Homeless Encampments
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is ordering state officials to begin dismantling thousands of homeless encampments, calling on government...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 152 min
Cities Take Hard Line On Homeless Camps Under Court Ruling
Until recently, federal appellate courts limited how far cities could go to clear homeless encampments. Last month, the Supreme Court...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 82 min
Homeless Killed At Alarming Rate in Arizona's Maricopa County
The night James Cruz disappeared, his sister knew something was wrong. Cruz had been living in Tempe, Arizona’s ‘River Bottom’ homeless...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 283 min
Cities May Ban Public Sleeping By The Homeless, High Court Rules
A public sleeping ban in Grants Pass, Oregon, did not unconstitutionally criminalize homelessness, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The...
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Crime and Justice News
May 212 min
Conservatives Seek To Move Homeless Aid To Drug Treatment
In October, Florida will become the latest state to ban homeless camping. Starting in January, any city that does not enforce the ban can...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 252 min
Supreme Court Case Unlikely To Impact Homelessness, Advocates Say
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the most consequential case regarding homelessness to come before it in...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 232 min
Justices Inclined To Let Cities Crack Down On Homeless Encampments
The Supreme Court seems ready to let cities crack down on homeless encampments. In arguments on Monday, conservative justices questioned...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 221 min
California Voters Approve Measure That Aims to House Homeless
A California bond initiative that enables the issuance of $6.4 billion in bonds to pay for housing for people with addiction and mental...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 152 min
Justices Will Decide If Cities Can Punish Homeless Campers
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could transform U.S. homelessness policy. The case is the most significant legal challenge to the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 92 min
After Attempted Crackdown On Homelessness In Montana, Stories Of Violence Against The Unhoused
In Kalispell, Montana, city leaders have attempted to crack down on homelessness by a series of measures including an ordinance to punish...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 52 min
Homeless Residents Sue WA City Over Camping Ban
The Seattle/King County, Wa., Coalition on Homelessness and three homeless Burien. Wa., residents, represented by the Northwest Justice...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 22, 20232 min
Encampment Sweeps Gain Steam, Displacing Homeless Residents
More than 653,000 Americans are homeless, says the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a 12% increase from last year. Among...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 28, 20232 min
Advocates Condemn the Crackdown on Homelessness Encampments
Tent encampments are now spreading across the U.S. as the federal count of homeless people reached 580,000 last year, driven by a lack of...
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Crime and Justice News
Nov 21, 20232 min
How Safety Net Flaws Led To 94 NYC Cases Of Violence By Homeless
Marcus Gomez, a homeless man who had long lived with schizophrenia, started hearing voices. Then he stripped off his clothes and stalked...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 3, 20232 min
New York Struggles with Housing Migrants To Avoid 'Tent Cities'
The crowds outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan resemble any number of cities struggling to contain a crisis of homelessness: dozens...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 19, 20232 min
CA Makes Homeless Problem Worse With Gap in Prisoner Re-Entry
The city of Los Angeles is struggling with an increase in its homelessness, in part because of California's particular distinction among...
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