If that’s the legal reasoning, then what’s the legal solution.
Is the legal solution to build homeless camps, and forcibly take these homeless to homeless shelters/camps, because then they would have a place to go? Legally speaking?
On the one hand, it would be a major investment of societal resources to build and maintain homeless camps, so that there is enough room for everyone. On the other hand, society is incurring many costs by letting people foul the streets and sidewalks and parks of our cities.
If I recall correctly, there are laws on the books regarding issues such as loitering and vagrancy. But I bet that because of court decisions such as the one discussed here, such laws are probably unenforceable nowadays.
You’re talking about treating the symptoms of a larger problem and flooding our country with illegals with only worsen it all
“Is the legal solution to build homeless camps, and forcibly take these homeless to homeless shelters/camps, because then they would have a place to go?”
Or, you could, you know, just not arrest people for sleeping outside when they don’t have anywhere else to sleep.
“If I recall correctly, there are laws on the books regarding issues such as loitering and vagrancy.”
Most of those laws have been struck down as unconstitutional. Some newer versions have been passed but they must be very narrowly crafted to pass Supreme Court scrutiny.