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News Brief: Media, Billionaires Attacks on Homeless People May Pay Off Big at Supreme Court

Added 2024-03-06 14:54:11 +0000 UTC

On this Citations Needed News Brief, we are joined by Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homelessness Law Center to discuss the upcoming Johnson v. Grants Pass case, which will be heard by the Supreme Court of the United States on April 22, 2024. This is the most significant case about the rights of homeless people in decades, determining whether cities can make it a crime to be homeless, to sleep outside, even when there is no safe shelter available to them. We discuss the boarder media narratives that got us to this cruel, irrational point.

Guest

Jesse Rabinowitz is the Communications and Campaign Director for the National Homelessness Law Center.

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Show Notes

Supreme Court and Homelessness: What the Grants Pass v. Johnson Case Could Do

Steve Berg | January 26, 2024 | National Alliance to End Homelessness

Wow! Bipartisan Effort Convinces Supreme Court to Rule on Screwing Homeless People

Roshan Abraham | January 17, 2024 | Vice

Statement on SCOTUS decision to hear Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson

January 17, 2024 | Housing Narrative Lab

Supreme court to decide whether US cities can enforce anti-homeless laws

Abené Clayton | January 16, 204| The Guardian

SCOTUS Takes Up Case that Could Rewrite Homeless Encampment Playbook

Robert Davis | January 15, 2024 | Invisible People

The Supreme Court will decide what cities can do about tent encampments

Rachel M. Cohen | January 12, 2024 | Vox

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Transcript

A transcript of this News Brief will be available soon. In the meantime, you can find transcripts of past episodes and News Briefs here.

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