Groups warn the Supreme Court that LGBTQ youth make up 65 percent of the chronically houseless youth population.
Sarah Feliciano, a transgender woman, talks with a housemate at the Wanda Alston House on May 5, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The Alston House is a transitional home specifically for houseless LGBTQ youth ages 16-24.Sarah Feliciano, a transgender woman, talks with a housemate at the Wanda Alston House on May 5, 2011, in Washington, D.C. The Alston House is a transitional home specifically for houseless LGBTQ youth ages 16-24.
In cities and states across the country, queer and trans youth activists are deeply involved in the social movements acting in solidarity with houseless people, even when they are experiencing housing insecurity themselves.is the most significant Supreme Court case about the rights of houseless people in decades.
However, as cities with skyrocketing housing costs face raging debates and conflicting court rulings over what to do about increasingly visible urban encampments that raise public health concerns, supporters of a crackdown on the houseless are asking the Supreme Court to reverse the Ninth Circuit decision.
State leaders and city officials say they are walking a fine line between competing local laws and legal rulings as they face constituents angry about houseless people sleeping and living outside. Cities such as Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, Ezie said the amicus brief details what advocates call the “discrimination to prison pipeline” that is fueling a crisis of poverty, underemployment and homelessness, putting queer and trans people on the margins at greater risk of being targeted by police.
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