Title: CDC - Homelessness as a Public Health Law Issue - Publications by Topic - Public Health Law
Headings: Homelessness as a Public Health Law Issue: Selected Resources
Homelessness as a Public Health Law Issue: Selected Resources
Content: for the Homeless (Oct. 2014). Overview of legislation that restricts individuals and groups from sharing food with homeless persons. No Safe Place: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities external icon
Nat’l Law Ctr. on Homelessness & Poverty (2014). Report on criminalization measures across the country, trends in criminalization of homelessness since 2009, comments on why those laws are ineffective, and alternatives. Downward Spiral: Homelessness and Its Criminalization external icon
Maria Foscarinis, 14 Yale L. & Pol’y Rev. 1 (1996). Overview of homelessness in America, recent efforts to criminalize homelessness, court rulings challenging those efforts, and public policy concerns, and argument for proactive approach to criminalization in the courts. Law and Policy Approaches to Addressing Homelessness
In recent years, advocacy organizations and government bodies have increasingly worked to decriminalize homelessness and to promote programs that provide multidisciplinary services, affordable housing, affordable healthcare, and other resources that can support homeless populations.