Jailing unhoused people for sleeping in public is no solution to homelessness

https://web.archive.org/web/20230711121400/https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-08/homelessness-laws-sleeping-in-public-9th-circuit

Original: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-08/homelessness-laws-sleeping-in-public-9th-circuit

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nix@merv.news · 7 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Maybe if they built more housing and less prisons they could actually help the issue

Speculater@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

It would even be cheaper!! Fuck this individualistic minded type of dystopia.

DrZaious@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

They don't even need to build more houses. There are more empty houses in America than homeless people.

NetHandle@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

Some people see homelessness as failure of society.
Other people see homelessness as failure in society.