Supreme Court Is Pressed To Allow Clearing of Homeless Encampments Blighting Western Cities

If the court weighs in, it will have major ramifications for the estimated 582,000 homeless people across America, many of whom have been allowed to live long-term in tents on city land.

AP/Ross D. Franklin, file
A large homeless encampment at Phoenix. AP/Ross D. Franklin, file

A bipartisan coalition of state governments, liberal cities, and free-market groups across the country is petitioning the Supreme Court to strike down court rulings that have bedeviled cities’ efforts to clear out dangerous and unsanitary homeless encampments. Should the court act in the coalition’s favor, cities could finally take action against the camps marked by filth, open-air drug use, and inflated crime.

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