Criminalizing homelessness?

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🗓️ 2 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The Supreme Court has weighed in on homelessness for the first time in decades. The Economist's Steven Mazie tells us what the decision means, and Vox's Rachel Cohen has some ideas for tackling the problem. This show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Miranda Kennedy, fact checked by Amanda Lewellyn and Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Julia Longoria. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We've been swimming in Supreme Court headlines since the term ended yesterday.
0:07.0	Justices granting former President Donald Trump some immunity for
0:10.6	Supreme Court has overturned a landmark 40-year-old decision that gave federal
0:15.1	agencies broad regulatory power. It sidestepped a ruling on the
0:19.2	constitutionality of state laws seeking to limit the company's ability to suppress user speech.
0:25.9	One big decision you might have missed is the one where the Supreme Court weighed in on homelessness
0:31.2	policies. For the first time in a while, they ruled it's not cruel or unusual to criminalize camping in public spaces.
0:40.0	That's just as record numbers of Americans are unhoused.
0:45.0	Right now, this whole community, the homeless community is in fear right now
0:48.0	that they're going to start being arrested and go to jail.
0:51.0	How this ruling could affect towns and cities across the country,
0:55.0	coming up on Today Explained.
0:59.0	Hi, it's Ashley C. Ford. I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice produced with Vox Creative.
1:11.0	I'm so excited to share that Into the Mix is back with four stories that take you beyond the
1:16.9	headlines and introduce you to the real people meeting some of today's greatest fights for
1:22.1	justice.
1:23.5	First up, we're heading to St. Louis
1:25.7	to meet Einez Fordow, a nurse and mother of four,
1:29.4	and a very proud Scorpio.
1:32.0	When a court error sent her life into a seven-year
1:35.0	tailspin, Einez came out swinging on the other side and set her sights on justice.
1:41.3	How? By closing the jail that symbolized the system that
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