The justices will hear arguments Monday on whether ticketing people who live on the streets is 'cruel and unusual' and violates the 8th Amendment.
The justices will hear arguments Monday on whether ticketing people who live on the streets is cruel and unusual, and violates the 8th Amendment.When Helen Cruz pitched her tent in a city park a few years ago and made it her home, she chose the location for one reason: She wanted to be close to the houses she cleans for a living but could never afford for herself.
"Nobody wants to be out here," said Cruz, who has since moved into a church where she also serves as a caretaker. "We know the parks are for family and children. The thing is, we have no place to go. There's no housing."Between 2022 and 2023, the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 12%, according to a Department of Housing and Urban Development report in December.
"I can see where the policymakers are coming from. I just think that it's so broad to say we're going ticket you for just simply existing," said Mary Ferrell, executive director of the Maslow Project, a nonprofit that works with homeless children in Grants Pass. "The sense on the ground is that the city just doesn't want people experiencing homelessness - period."
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the city, holding that it could not "enforce its anticamping ordinances against homeless persons for the mere act of sleeping outside with rudimentary protection from the elements, or for sleeping in their car at night, when there was no other place in the city for them to go."
"There is no compassion in stepping over people in the streets, and there is no dignity in allowing people to die in dangerous, fire-prone encampments," Newsom told the court in a brief that sided with neither side.
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