Good!
Sleeping in your car? Jail.
Sleeping under a bridge? Jail.
Sleeping on a park bench? Jail.
Sleeping in the woods? Jail.
But that's just me I guess.
The effect would be that smaller towns with limited budgets would face a potential influx of homeless people, since they don't have the resources to build shelters and therefore cannot ban public camping.
Also, the proposed shelter constraint on the law is pretty dubious. Say a town builds a shelter and then it bans public camping. Does that law get nullified if a tornado destroys the shelter space? What if the shelter has 5 beds, but the homeless population grows to 100? At what point does that law become voided?
Democracy.
This is useless hyperbole.
I call BS, there's thousands of other places in the country aside from downtown SF or other areas where they decide to congregate
SC isn't banning homelessness nationwide, I highly doubt every municipality will ban it at once. It's just giving municipalities that suddenly get hordes of them showing up the ability to make them go elsewhere
To me, who grew up in Central Europe and is obviously biased, that is wild.
By definition, the homeless don't have that.
Driver's License or State ID. In my state (Georgia) to get these you must also provide a birth certificate or passport, as well as two documents showing Georgia residency (I.E., utility bill/phone bill that must have your address listed on them.
Okay, so those are unavailable to the homeless as they most likely will not have their birth certificate or passport with them (as belongings are routinely confiscated by police during removals of homeless encampments). Nor will they have an address or a utility bill in their name. Oh, also, Georgia requires a residential address for these ID cards so while you can use a PO Box on the card itself, they still need proof of a residential address for their records.
So, how again are the homeless expected to vote when they, legally, can't even get a drivers license or state ID card? This isn't even getting into the $25 it costs to get a copy of your birth certificate or the $32 fee for get a state ID. $57 could potentially feed them for a week, and when you don't know when your next meal is going to be, what's more important to you in that situation?
It's midnight, there are several thousand homeless people in the city, where do they sleep?
It's relevant because there are people with nowhere to sleep. It's not possible for them to not sleep.
Is your solution to jail them all, so that they sleep in jail?
"A 2019 article in The New York Times reported that many bus ticket recipients were missing, unreachable, in jail, or homeless within a month after leaving San Francisco, and one out of eight returned to the city within a year.[2]"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_homeless_relocation_pr...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...
If we're going to spend the resources to incarcerate these folks, would not the resources be better spent (with much better potential RoI, no less) on assisting persons in obtaining living situations?
I don’t love this decision. But the endgame to homeless encampments in parks is parks being defunded and sold to developers.
-don't currently suffer from a debilitating mental illness that prevents them from holding down a job or an apartment,
-weren't kicked out of their home by their parents for being LGBT,
-didn't incur a financially crippling medical debt which forced them to choose between housing or their lives
Or one of the myriad other reasons why someone might become homeless through no fault of their own in late-stage American society.
There but for the grace of God go all of us.
You should want a society where we are all rewarded for looking after each other, in the ways we are each best at. Nothing else can work.