On a single night in January 2025, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that 745,652 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States, including 266,320 in unshelte
A homeless woman in Washington, D.C., 2006
A homeless man sleeping across the street from the Colorado State Capitol Building in Denver, 2018
The Bowery Mission at 36 Bowery in New York City, c. 1880s
Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Depression-era Chicago, 1931
City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U.S. 520, is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court in which the Court held that local government ordinances with civil and criminal penalties for c
Homelessness in the United States
…to healthy food, and exposes individuals to both cold and heat stress, violence, and traffic deaths. This contributes to increased mortality rates. In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson (2024), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that anti-camping laws do not constitute a cruel and unusual punishment under the 8th Amendment even when no shelter…
Grants Pass, Oregon, sought to impose anti-camping, anti-sleeping, and parking exclusion ordinances to dissuade homeless individuals from residing on its public land.
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Sonia Sotomayor in SCOTUS robe