Justices ruled in favor of an Oregon city with similar laws to those in Texas.
The City of Austin's laws around homelessness still stand following a Supreme Court ruling around a similar law in a town in Oregon.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled policies banning behavior related to homelessness in Austin and cities across the country are constitutionalbanning sleeping and camping outdoors in 2018, arguing they were unconstitutional because the city had neither the housing nor the emergency shelter to accommodate them. In light of that, criminal prosecution equates to cruel and unusual punishment, they argued.siding with the city of Grants Pass.
Friday's ruling means that the similar laws in both Austin and Texas that ban camping and sleeping in public arePlaintiffs argued those policies are unconstitutional — specifically in an urban area that doesn’t have enough shelter or housing — for people living outdoors. Justices refused to hear a similar case out of Boise in 2019.Andrew Weber is a general assignment reporter for KUT, focusing on criminal justice, policing, courts and homelessness in Austin and Travis County.
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