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On Friday, the US Supreme Court ruled that cities can impose restrictions on where the homeless can sleep when they do n’t have enough room for them on the West Coast.
The decision comes after poverty in the US increased by a shocking 12 % last year to its highest reported degree as a result of rising prices and decreasing housing costs, which combined to make it impossible for more people to find housing.
The Supreme Court overturned a San Francisco-based appeals court’s decision 6-3, which found that exterior sleeping bans constitute” cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th Amendment. ” Homelessness is difficult. Its factors are numerous. Therefore, the majority of justices wrote for the court that “public policy actions are required to handle it.” A coalition of officials had argued that the decision to outlaw the restrictions made it more difficult to control outside encampments that were encroaching on walkways and other public spaces in nine American states. That includes California- residence to an estimated 171, 000 poor people, or almost one- third of the region’s unemployed population.
Poor activists, on the other hand, said allowing places to punish individuals who need a place to sleep may criminalise poverty. ” Nap is a biological need, not a crime”, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in protest movement. Grants Pass, an Oregon area, brought the case after tents started encroaching on open spaces, and the court ruled in favor of the district court’s appeal.