Attn, February 12, 2017: Why Some Cities Are Making Extreme Poverty a Crime
“Four out of 10 U.S. cities now prohibit living in a car, according to a 2016 report from the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, a 143 percent increase in such laws over the previous decade. Maria Foscarinis, the group’s executive director, said it’s part of a larger trend: ‘the criminalization of homelessness,’ including laws banning not just sleeping in cars, but sleeping in tents or asking for money (‘panhandling’) or even being fed in a public park.”