Combat Homelessness by Ending Exclusionary Zoning

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Combat Homelessness by Ending Exclusionary Zoning

Homeless encampment under an overpass in Oakland, California. (Blackkango | Dreamstime.com)   Today, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case which raises the issue of whether a law that criminalizes camping on public property by homeless people who have nowhere else to qualifies as "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment. I highly doubt the Eighth Amendment can do much to help the homeles…