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Class Action Challenges San Diego's Criminalization of Homelessness
Class Actions, Homelessness Teddy Basham-Witherington Class Actions, Homelessness Teddy Basham-Witherington

Class Action Challenges San Diego's Criminalization of Homelessness

A lot is at stake in this case. Punitive approaches to sheltering in vehicles are reflective of the larger, nationwide policy shift toward criminalizing visible poverty in a harmful, expensive, and futile effort to police our way out of the growing homelessness crisis. When inherently innocent survival conduct, like sheltering, is treated as a punishable offense, the rights and freedoms of all human beings are threatened. It is critical to fight for protection of our freedoms in the courts.

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