Are cities required to allow the homeless to sleep on public property? This month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule in a case that examines whether it’s unconstitutional to impose penalties for street camping.
My colleagues have written about the legal details of the case, explaining that the Constitution does not provide a right to sleep on public property, nor does it include a right to shelter for the homeless.
City governments have the authority to determine how a city’s public property is used.
Of course, local governments are also faced with the challenge of how to help those who do end up on the streets. Cities across the country have seen homelessness rise, but government solutions have been mostly unsuccessful.
So, what’s to be done to help those who languish on the streets?
Number of Homeless
More than 653,000 people were homeless on…
