America's Catch-22: Not enough Affordable Housing, but it's increasingly Illegal to be Homeless

America's Catch-22: Not enough Affordable Housing, but it's increasingly Illegal to be Homeless

By Cedar Monroe and Liz Theoharis In 2019, a group of homeless folks were living on a deserted piece of land along the Chehalis River, a drainage basin that empties into Grays Harbor, an estuary of the Pacific Ocean, on the coast of the state of Washington. When the city of Aberdeen ordered the homeless encampment cleared out, some of those unhoused residents took the city to court, because they had nowhere else to go. Aberdeen finally settled t…