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There is nothing in the text or history of the cruel and unusual punishments clause that remotely grants anyone a right to public housing.

The Supreme Court will weigh whether efforts to address homelessness in Grants Pass, Oregon, violated the Constitution's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider Monday whether banning homeless people from sleeping outside when shelter space is lacking amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. The case is considered the most significant to come before the high court in decades on homelessness, which has reached record levels in the United States. In California […]

Unhoused people in Grants Pass were arrested for sleeping outside, but there was nowhere else for them to go.

A group of homeless people in a small Oregon city challenged local laws banning sleeping in public. The case has broad implications for homelessness policy throughout the country.

A U.S. Supreme Court hearing could eventually change the way all U.S. cities regulate homelessness, including Denver.