The Supreme Court appeared poised Monday to clear the way for cities across the US to restrict homeless encampments by allowing local laws that ban public camping to take effect.
The case, which revolves around a challenge to an ordinance in the southern Oregon city of Grants Pass, is the most significant on the issue to come before the court in decades as official stats show record numbers of Americans are out on the street.
The Grants Pass measure bars camping or sleeping on public property or city parks, while defining a campsite as “any place where bedding, sleeping bag, or other material used for bedding purposes, or any stove or fire is placed.”
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