In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2024 was more than 770,000 according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Homelessness has increased in r
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
Grants Pass, Oregon, sought to impose anti-camping, anti-sleeping, and parking exclusion ordinances to dissuade homeless individuals from residing on its public land.
Edwin Kneedler argued the position of the federal government
Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch Official Portrait
Sonia Sotomayor in SCOTUS robe