{"id":12169,"date":"2023-11-11T13:53:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12169"},"modified":"2023-11-11T13:53:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T13:53:51","slug":"cities-are-asking-the-supreme-court-for-more-power-to-clear-homeless-encampments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12169","title":{"rendered":"Cities are asking the Supreme Court for more power to clear homeless encampments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In 2018, a federal court issued a consequential decision about homelessness<\/a> in America: People without housing can\u2019t be punished for sleeping or camping outside on public property if there are no adequate shelter alternatives available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision, Martin v. Boise<\/em><\/a>, said that punishing homeless people with no other place to go would violate the Eighth Amendment\u2019s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Ever since,cities and states have struggled to comply with it,crafting convoluted policies like a new camping ban in Portland, Oregon<\/a> that prohibits homeless camping during the hours of 8 am to 8 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As municipal backlash to Martin <\/em>grew, so has the nation\u2019s homelessness crisis, especially in the nine Western states under the Ninth Circuit\u2019s jurisdiction, where some 42 percent of the country\u2019s homeless population<\/a> now lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court declined to hear Martin <\/em>in 2019. But they now could reconsider the decision. A petition<\/a> was filed in late August concerning a similar case in Grants Pass, Oregon, a city of 38,000 people. In 2022, the Ninth Circuit decided it would be unconstitutional for Grants Pass to fine homeless people sleeping on public property if there was nowhere else for them to go. The city is challenging that decision.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/10\/10\/23905951\/homeless-tent-encampments-grants-pass-martin-boise-unsheltered-housing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In 2018, a federal court issued a consequential decision about homelessness in America: People without housing can\u2019t be punished for sleeping or camping outside on public property if there are no adequate shelter alternatives available.
\nThe Ninth Circuit\u2019s decision, Martin v. Boise, said that punishing homeless people with no other place to go would violate the Eighth Amendment\u2019s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. Ever since, cities and states have struggled to comply with it, crafting convoluted policies like a new camping ban in Portland, Oregon that prohibits homeless camping during the hours of 8 am to 8 pm.<\/p>\n

As municipal backlash to Martin grew, so has the nation\u2019s homelessness crisis, especially in the nine Western states under the Ninth Circuit\u2019s jurisdiction, where some 42 percent of the country\u2019s homeless population now lives.<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court declined to hear Martin in 2019. But they now could reconsider the decision. A petition was filed in late August concerning a similar case in Grants Pass, Oregon, a city of 38,000 people. In 2022, the Ninth Circuit decided it would be unconstitutional for Grants Pass to fine homeless people sleeping on public property if there was nowhere else for them to go. The city is challenging that decision.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2023\/10\/10\/23905951\/homeless-tent-encampments-grants-pass-martin-boise-unsheltered-housing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[961,790,558,557,1213,528],"class_list":["post-12169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cities","tag-courts","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-judiciary","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12170,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169\/revisions\/12170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}