U.S. Laws Criminalizing Sleeping in Public Have Grown as Much as 60 Percent in Just a Few Years

‘There is a war on, and it concerns the homeless’ right to sleep. Across the United States, recent years have seen a spate of municipal laws that criminalize the act of sleeping in public places. These laws often target the act of sleeping in private vehicles under the guise of “anti-camping” legislation.

The problem is, the growing number of homeless in this country — more than 600,000 on any given night — often have nowhere else to go. The federal government this summer weighed in on the side of the homeless and their advocates, but the matter is far from settled.

To better understand the legal landscape of public sleep, Van Winkle’s spoke with Tristia Bauman, a senior attorney with the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.’

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