The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

  • Null User Object@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    For communities that do this, the goal is to…

    A) Drive out the homeless so they go to other, more charitable communities, and become someone else’s problem, and then…

    B) Point out the higher rate of homelessness (and higher taxes necessary to deal with it) in those other communities and say, “Look how awful those communities are!”

    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Or fuel the prison industrial complex sustaining a constant supply of slave labor and state funding for private prisons