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Local governments can lose state or federal funding if they don’t enforce rules on unauthorized public camping, sleeping or obstructions of sidewalks. National organizations are urging HUD’s general counsel to weigh in on whether the measure violates federal policy and law.
Hundreds of homeless service providers and groups opposed now-signed legislation this spring, saying that it criminalizes people forced to sleep outside.
A Missouri bill would ban people from sleeping on state-owned land and allow Missouri’s attorney general to sue local governments that don’t enforce the ban.
Micah Titterington was among hundreds of organization leaders who opposed a measure in the Missouri Legislature this year that they argue would criminalize homelessness statewide.
A Missouri bill would ban people from sleeping on state-owned land and allow Missouri’s attorney general to sue local governments that don’t enforce the ban.