Supreme Court to weigh in on criminalization of homelessness 

So you can't jail squatters, but you can jail the homeless...🤔

Why not make laws against corporations buying up all the subdivisions and reselling them at a higher cost.

the rents are so high it should be a crime.

Prohibit corporate entities from purchasing residential properties.

Two jobs and she is still homeless, THAT is the crime. Her employers should be ashamed.

How can you arrest homelessness but not address the lack of affordable housing?! They don’t even have a single shelter for the homeless. This is beyond cruel.

Criminalizing being homeless is ridiculous, the city government should be ashamed

Mass Homelessness is not the homeless fault. It is the inescapable outcome of an unjust system.

Very cruel punishment to persecute the poorest among us.

We haven't built any shelters... but we've got cages!

Unhoused? It's okay to say Homeless. Using different words doesn't make it better.

$500/Month is the definition of "affordable." Start there. Develop 10,000,000 small housing units that rent for no more than that and this problem goes away.

If it's illegal to not have enough it should be illegal to have too much

“How dare you be poor! You’re under arrest!”

Nice to know they have enough money for Ukraine but not people at home. 😢

Homelessness is the symptom. That's like criminalizing Cancer or any disease. The problem has been solved by other countries. Unfortunately the shelter system, and other non-profits, profit off of the problem. Thank you.

Greatest country in the world...for oligarchs and corporations.

Homelessness is a result of our societies health. You must treat the cause not the symptoms. We need to find a way to house the homeless without jail, you’re not a criminal just because of poverty, that’s an absurd viewpoint.

Lot's going on here. #1. Mental Health #2. Addiction #3. City Code not allowing Roommates #4 Elimination of Single Room Occupancy #5. Homeless people not picking up after each other. #6 Healthcare costs

"Affordable" housing shouldn't be a set price but go off a certain percentage of that persons income on a full time job.

This is dangerous. To consider homelessness as a crime some people cannot help it.

This is kind of freaking evil

America is cruel and unusual. How about some "affordable life"?

Homeless ppl are NOT criminals!!! Shame on Grants Pass!!! 😠😠😠

The state of America is an absolute embarrassment and this is not the answer. Politicians should be regulating rents as well as building more affordable housing. Most of these people are in this situation due to no fault of their own and most seemed to be disabled and middle aged. This is absolutely cruel and unusual punishment and I blame the government for not doing anything.

I blame homelessness on the government

Just to play both sides, what do you say to the citizens in the city that pay taxes for city parks, but are afraid to ustilize those parks.

Heartless America

To give up their pets is inhumane.!!! These animals are probably the only thing keeping these individuals sane and alive!!!!😡

With the rising cost of living, this is just wrong! 😡

They must work! As companies are buying robots to replace those currently working.

You all can build small apartments for the homeless people like the people of Stanley, Virginia. They have some great complex apartments, for seniors and homeless people. Check it out. Keep building, for Americans people. God bless you. Amen. ❤

Homelessness is not a crime but creating an economic system and manipulating it where the natural outcome produces more homelessness is.

This is downright evil, homelessness isn't something people choose. It sickens me seeing how sadistic people have become simply because they're uncomfortable tackling the underlying problems that lead to this in the first place.

Making everything unaffordable with price gouging and underpaying everybody until everybody is broke and then punishing them for not having enough money to afford things just seems sinister to me.

To be honest US housing prices are so high.

I am not in favor of people turning parks into homeless shelters, but where exactly should they go?

End the $20,000,000,000 a year drug war and use the money to solve homelessness.

My husband used family court to throw me in the gutter. I was a mother with young children. I want to find a lawyer to sue Family Court and CPS for millions.

Homelessness shouldn’t be a crime. People breaking in our country is a crime but not homelessness!

Criminalizing homelessness is wicked work

Lack of housing and Rent rates are cruel and unusual punishment.

⁠”Housing affordability” is not the reason why Oregon, and other Progressive states have a bum problem. But using that as a reason sure does help them get their hands on more of my tax dollars.

What’s cruel is the inflated prices of homes and rent that’s making homelessness a problem.

If your choice is a tent or having religion thrust down your throat a lot of people are going to take the tent. The idea that you only qualify for help if you submit to religious indoctrination shows that the private shelter shown in this video is not a charity but a recruitment project.

Why do they have to give up their pets??? That is a huge reason why people do not want to go to a shelter. Ridiculous.

If the only place they can go is somewhere that requires you to go to church twice a day and give up your pets, there really is nowhere else to go. The owner of that "shelter" should be ashamed of himself.

It’s easy to tell the homeless to move from your window of your house!

consider homelessness as a crime?? Total BS

Any rent stabilized apartments in my area have a three year wait. Average apartments are $1400 to $1700 per month. How is an average worker expected to pay that along with gas, insurance, food etc. Unregulated prices of apartments are out of control, we need to crack down on greed, not families seeking shelter.

Stop housing inflation.

The only shelter in the area has stricter rules than prison, wtf?

This is literally kicking people when they are down. There are so many people living paycheque to paycheque that are one missed payment away from ending up like this.

Where’s the affordable housing ? Criminalizing homelessness is evil. Just build the small houses and watch a huge number of homeless be housed. Many are without a home bc rents are too high. Greed caused this.

Criminalization of the homeless is 100% CRUEL! We can’t afford the rent working 2 jobs! No one will build low income housing because there isnt financial incentive, but also they have to jump through a hundred thousand hoops that aren’t necessary! District issues: people won’t allow it to be built in their area citing crime will increase and their homes will lose property value. Those are ignorant reasons.. low income housing does not bring down property value and in the long term, crime has been seen to lower. How can we let this happen to our neighbors? Instead of call the police on a homeless person saying their tent is ugly how about speak with them yourself? Bring them a hot meal? allowing them to use your hose when thirsty? Try kindness!!! Fight for their human rights because you never know when it will be YOU!

There are laws against poverty to split up black families that will go unsaid.unless you already have this knowledge.Trust me, we have never stopped being under attack from these people.I don't know why you would ever thought that

Golf courses. Let all the homeless live on that land.

if i was forced to go to church 2 x every day i wouldnt accept shelter either.

Let's talk about the REAL issue. It's as much as living LA in the entire state of Oregon. Real estate is LITERALLY the states highest income. When you want $2 grand for a 2 bedroom shotgun apartment...and then pay less than $13 an hour!?! Let's NOT leave that part out! It's time to vote these greedy clowns out of office!!!!

Cruel and unusual punishment is what officials have done with 24billion dollars of taxpayer dollars for homelessness and the money can’t be accounted for or where and who got it.

Criminalize homelessness and then don’t fix the housing problem you’re going to have a ride on your hands

DON'T BE STUPID - BEING POOR IS NOT A CRIME - HATING THE POOR SHOULD BE A CRIME

When did not being able to afford rent or housing become a crime?

Why not criminalize inflation

As someone who was homeless, I can tell you the stenotype of people who are homeless being 'lazy people who don't want to work' or are all 'druggies' is far from. The vast majority had one bad thing happen or another that put them in a place they never wanted to be. (forgive the following wall of text. This was my experience) I used to have a place of my own, two part time jobs that totaled almost 50 hours a week work, more then if I worked a single full time. I was living comfortably, had a nice savings going... Then while going out to lunch with some co workers, crossing at a light to head to a diner we liked a speeding idiot ran the red light, and smashed into us. I don't have much recollection of it, outside a searing pain in my leg though I was told I was awake and answering questions to paramedics. My left side is now crippled due to joint and nerve damage. I've lost most use in my left hand and get around a cane on good days and a walker on bad. My jobs could not keep me on as I could no longer do my tasks, and doctors told me I would need to apply for disability. My savings kept me afloat and I was approved... but only got a measly $560 a month. Nowhere near enough for rent, for food. All I could do in the end before all my savings vanished was pay for a storage unit and movers and into the local shelters I went while I waited for the government programs, housing and such the social security office supplied information for to assist me. The shelter? You are up at 5 am, are given a small breakfast, then you are OUT. No, they do not let you stay at the shelter all day. You are out by 6-7am and then you must be back by 4 or they will not let you in. That is why you see homeless roaming around. Plus there's so many of us, all we had was thin mats to sleep on wherever we could find space. If there's no room to take in more, then there is no room and they wont let you in. I made friends with one elderly lady there who had been there over three years. Her husband passed and had hidden debts she was unaware of that she was forced to take over, lost the house and everything. She was waiting for the assistance too... Another had been there over a year after escaping domestic abuse from her ex. Another was there after getting laid off from their job, and due to the job market had to settle for the only thing available, part time at fast food that didn't offer enough even for a cheep apartment. Most were doing what I had, your life is in a storage unit or in a bag on your back and you're stuck waiting for a social worker to do something. Laundry was done in a public laundry mat and food for the day well.. cheapest thing is fast food. We were served dinner IF you were of those who made it back into the shelter at 4pm, but it was bar bones at best. There were some people who were clearly mentally ill... but as far as I could tell no one looked like a druggy, and the shelter I was in only allowed a single backpack inside and they searched it for drugs or weps along with any pockets on your person before being let in. People could be waiting for years for government assistance for housing, stuck in a system they don't want to be in. Or be stuck trying to find a job that actually pays enough to live off of as you can't just pay rent, there's utilities and food too to think of. Sure you can save up to get in, but if the total you earn don't equal or is over what you need to stay in... Then you are right back out hoping for a spot in a shelter. Thus those tent cities you find. Even I was in one as setting up a tent with a cot was FAR more comfortable then sleeping on a thin mat on a hard tile floor. Making being homeless a crime just because life chose to deal some of us a bad hand, shoving us into a life out of our control isn't right. Instead of locking people up how about actually DOING something to HELP people get off the streets. I was stuck waiting for housing to open up to JUST to accept applications... and even if you got one in you still had to wait years as they only accept so many of those applications each year. IM STILL ON A WAITING LIST TO GET HOUSING 5 YEARS LATER! And I would still be on the streets if some old friends hadn't reconnected over text once I was able to find a new phone plan I could afford and offered to let me stay with them. But not everyone can catch such a break. My belongings are still in a storage unit, I am sleeping on a couch and giving them 300 a month to let me stay. But not everyone has this luxury. Making it a crime to be down on your luck? You can't get anymore heartless.

Problem is cost of housing, In 1992 the apartment I rented was $200 for a brand new 2 bedroom in WashingtonState, that same apartment is now $1500 a month.

Did I just read that right, making homeless a crime...what an insane time 😮

It’s a crime to just live at this point

The price of the shelter is you have to go to church 14 times a week!! how are those people supposed to get jobs going to church 14 times a week!!!!!!!!

"We have to keep the people safe" yet no one sees the folks in tents as citizens or as people.

This is disgusting America is becoming a very disgusting place You're going to charge people for being homeless That's disgusting dang choosing to be homeless Their homeless cuz they ain't got nothing or any money As someone who used to be homeless I find this disgusting

It is a shame to see the government cant help these homeless people out. In charlottesville, they have insulation homes that you can put together, to look like homes, check it out. Thank you lord for helped with these homeless people.❤

Keep people safe? Homeless are people! What about their safety ? Lower the costs of living! How about that?

Meanwhile, landlords are conspiring together using realpages to increase rents and decrease supply so they can make record profits.

Change is coming for helping the homeless! ❤

I’m now in favor of forcing cities to have refuges for them to go, maybe hut cities on outskirts of town, and criminalizing homelessness inside populated areas of city…the reason being that fentanyl has made sanitation issues with many homeless unbearable. It used to be that homeless mostly peed in the alley. I often see homeless peeing openly, I went in a convenience store to get one a sandwich but came out to find him with feces hanging from his naked bottom as he openly relieved himself - now when I see feces on the street, I’m more likely to think it came from a person than a pet - I’ve seen feces smeared against buildings, sleeping openly on sidewalks surrounding themselves in their trash…it’s a health hazard. I won’t eat or shop in most businesses where they go to keep warm because of the smell and health concern. They absolutely, 100% should be cared for, but in a concentrated area that can address their needs in one place. Not only a health but safety concern when ppl are getting off work and some get anxious that they didn’t collect enough money for a fix, some can act aggressive then…you think about that when you miss your bus and walk home while avoiding agitated homeless. Different times call for different measures.

Example: People in Las Vegas have to live in underground tunnels because its illegal to be on the street

Homelessness is also a big business. Lots of people have jobs and making money from homeless individuals. It's a never ending cycle .

God said the poor will be with you always if we help the poor we will be helping him why we don't understand that

Scandalous

Inhumane to treat our human brothers like this. Stop with greed, everyone deserves basic human rights.

then provide more affordable housing programs.

Im confused why the states dont provide better temporary housing centers for the legit homeless while passing this bill not to camp?

Where do they want these people to go???!!! . Up a tree??? What????😳

Well y'all made it a crime for the pastor to build mobile tiny home communities

Anyone else notice that homelessness basically became illegal as the numbers of homeless started increasing, with no end to the increase in sight, as things are just continuing to go up?

The government answer to homelessness is jail? How about addressing the issue? Homelessness is a public safety concern.

During my 54 years on this Earth, I've helped the homeless more than 2,000 times. I've given them games and radios and other things. I think homelessness can happen to anyone. I've asked for help from people, and didn't get it. I know what it is like to be turned away.

If you go to the rescue mission in Grants pass and try to get in, you will understand why there's so many tents and people out on the street

"Unhoused"? No Homeless. Many are that way BY CHOICE! And this is not a victimless crime, What about the people that have to deal with stepping over needles? human feces? drug crazed addicts? STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR THESE PEOPLE!

We are failing miserably as a country

Housing is not affordable and yet we went to criminalize people who can’t?!

The banksters have made housing a betting casino. Now housing is criminally expensive. This country is INSANE

The criminalization should be placed on the housing authorities & landlords

Oregon needs to scrap their antiquated zoning laws IMMEDIATELY. Making it illegal to build more homes during a housing shortage where thousands of people are sleeping outside is actually insane. Abolish Exclusionary Zoning right now.

Just get them land to use !!! Away from the public !!

Get cought homeless in florida you get beat up and locked up

There's not enough prison or buildings to put 30 million homeless people away for no crime.

Where’s the YEARS of MONEY THAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR THESE PROGRAMS???

Yes get them out