Add to ORKGThe lack of available shelter space leaves many homeless persons with no choice but to struggle to survive on the streets of our cities. Unfortunately, the response has been for the cities to turn to the criminal justice system to respond to people living in public spaces. This trend includes measures that target homeless people by making it illegal to perform life-sustaining activities in public, usually including criminal penalties for violation of these laws. This document covers which cities are the meanest towards its homeless occupants, and what exactly the laws are that makes homelessness appear to be a criminal activity
Even before the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, cities had become increasingly concern...
Across the United States there is a homeless epidemic sweeping the nation. Although there is more an...
There has been a dramatic rise of homelessness in America over the past several decades. A lot of re...
Homelessness is punishing to those who experience it, not just from the inherent and protracted trau...
A city council recently developed a policy that homeless residents are no longer welcome in the Cit...
Chicago passed an ordinance banning aggressive panhandling, and the definition is rather broad, pr...
This report is the National Coalition for the Homeless' (NCH) fourth report on the criminalization o...
The following report will document that people experiencing homelessness are subject to basic violat...
Homelessness is a critical social and economic problem in the U.S., with approximately 3.5 million p...
Cities throughout the country respond to homelessness with laws that persecute people for surviving ...
This report, "Illegal to Be Homeless: The Criminalization of Homelessness in the United States," is ...
While homelessness exists in all places, a majority of people experiencing homelessness are experien...
Criminalization takes a toll, not only on adults, but also on the growing numbers of families, child...
Causes of homelessness are multiple and complex. Public focus often centers on personal problems, wh...
Over the past decade, communities across the United States have enacted new laws that penalize hom...
Even before the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, cities had become increasingly concern...
Across the United States there is a homeless epidemic sweeping the nation. Although there is more an...
There has been a dramatic rise of homelessness in America over the past several decades. A lot of re...
Homelessness is punishing to those who experience it, not just from the inherent and protracted trau...
A city council recently developed a policy that homeless residents are no longer welcome in the Cit...
Chicago passed an ordinance banning aggressive panhandling, and the definition is rather broad, pr...
This report is the National Coalition for the Homeless' (NCH) fourth report on the criminalization o...
The following report will document that people experiencing homelessness are subject to basic violat...
Homelessness is a critical social and economic problem in the U.S., with approximately 3.5 million p...
Cities throughout the country respond to homelessness with laws that persecute people for surviving ...
This report, "Illegal to Be Homeless: The Criminalization of Homelessness in the United States," is ...
While homelessness exists in all places, a majority of people experiencing homelessness are experien...
Criminalization takes a toll, not only on adults, but also on the growing numbers of families, child...
Causes of homelessness are multiple and complex. Public focus often centers on personal problems, wh...
Over the past decade, communities across the United States have enacted new laws that penalize hom...
Even before the onset of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, cities had become increasingly concern...
Across the United States there is a homeless epidemic sweeping the nation. Although there is more an...
There has been a dramatic rise of homelessness in America over the past several decades. A lot of re...