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The Supreme Court decides whether cities can punish homeless people for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go. The case has significant implications for cities and states dealing with homelessness.

The fate of Kentucky’s recently passed “Safer Kentucky Act” may be in the hands of the nation’s highest court.

How Cottage Grove and cities across Oregon and the national handle homelessness could be determined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

WASHINGTON — A majority of U.S Supreme Court justices Monday seemed inclined to side with an Oregon town’s law that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors, ...

How Cottage Grove and cities across Oregon and the national handle homelessness could be determined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court must decide whether cities can punish the unhoused for sleeping in public when they have nowhere else to go.

WASHINGTON — A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday seemed inclined to side with an Oregon town’s law that bans homeless people from sleeping outdoors, in a case that

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices expressed concern Monday about punishing homeless people for sleeping outside when they have nowhere else to go, while also struggling with how to ensure local

The Supreme Court is wrestling with major questions about the growing issue of homelessness as it considers whether cities can ban people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking.

The case has ramifications nationwide for homeless people, even as the population of unhoused people in the U.S. continues to grow rapidly.