#Massachusetts recently changed its guaranteed shelter law to no longer guarantee shelter.
Now, individual communities are following up on that by criminalizing not having a place to live: https://whdh.com/news/brockton-city-council-approves-encampment-crackdown/
This starts out as a NIMBY problem, until more and more cities and towns do it, at which point homeless people literally have nowhere to go except a prison or a cemetery.
#housingIsAHumanRight #homelessness #capitalism #politics #USPol #MAPoli
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Jonathan Kamens (jik@federate.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 01:30:05 JSTJonathan Kamens