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Criminalization of Homelessness

  • Hughes v. City of Glendale

    What’s at stake Whether the city of Glendale can outlaw panhandling using ordinances that restrict free speech in violation of the First Amendment .   Summary  Between 2019 and 2024, homelessness in Maricopa County, Ariz., which contains more than 60% of the population of Arizona as a whole, skyrocketed by nearly 50%. The region has…

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  • Bradford v. City of Tucson

    When local businesses and a neighborhood association sued Tucson, AZ, to try to force the city to sweep unhoused people from their neighborhood, the Public Justice Debtors’ Prison Project, alongside the National Homelessness Law Center and local counsel at the Law Office of Paul Gattone, sought to intervene on behalf of community organizations that serve…

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