Title: Anti-homelessness legislation - Wikipedia
Headings: Anti-homelessness legislation
Anti-homelessness legislation
Contents
International law
Laws supporting the homeless
United Kingdom
Scotland
United States
Laws criminalizing behaviors engaged in by the homeless
England and Wales
United States
Anti-homeless architecture
Perception of Homelessness and Policy Implications
United States
See also
References
External links

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Anti-homelessness legislation
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Man sleeps on the street. Anti-homelessness legislation can take two forms: legislation that aims to help and re-house homeless people; and legislation that is intended to send the homeless to homeless shelters compulsorily, or to criminalize homelessness and begging. Contents
1 International law
2 Laws supporting the homeless
2.1 United Kingdom
2.1.1 Scotland
2.2 United States
3 Laws criminalizing behaviors engaged in by the homeless
3.1 England and Wales
3.2 United States
4 Anti-homeless architecture
5 Perception of Homelessness and Policy Implications
5.1 United States
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
International law
Since the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Charter of the United Nations — UN) in 1948, the public perception has been increasingly changing to a focus on the human right to housing, travel and migration as a part of individual self-determination rather than the human condition. The Declaration, an international law reinforcement of the Nuremberg Trial Judgements, upholds the rights of one nation to intervene in the affairs of another if said nation is abusing its citizens, and rose out of a 1939–1945 World War II Atlantic environment of extreme split between "haves" and "have nots." Article 6 of the 1998 Declaration of Human Duties and Responsibilities declares that members of the global community have individual and collective duties and responsibilities to take appropriate action to prevent the commission gross or systematic human rights abuses. The modern study of homeless phenomena is most frequently seen in this historical context. Laws supporting the homeless
Laws supporting homeless people generally place obligations on the state to support or house homeless people. United Kingdom
The 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act required parish unions to supply houses for workers but these unions purposely made these work houses unattractive in order to discourage workers from applying for housing.