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Why Turning Homelessness Into a Crime Is Cruel and Costly

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Increasingly, local laws punish Americans who are homeless. By severely restricting or even barring the ability to engage in necessary, life-sustaining activities in public, like sitting, standing, sleeping or asking for help, even when there’s no reasonable alternative, these laws are essentially persecuting homeless men, women and children. As law professors who study how laws can make...

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