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Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside (apnews.com)

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Given these people have nowhere to go why not set aside some public land that allows long term encampments or maybe if it’s a concern about the safety of these encampments, the government could acquire an empty office building and retrofit it with modest accommodations for these peoples.

Or you could just admit it’s not about helping these people it’s about making them go away.

[–] Buelldozer 1 points 7 months ago

Those are both reasonable solutions and I'm not arguing against them. I just pointed out that this fight isn't about banning homeless people from sleeping outside. It's more nuanced than that.