■今日の動画：PBS News Weekend April 21, 2024

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[12:32] Tomorrow, the Supreme Court hears arguments about whether laws limiting homeless encampments in public places are unconstitutional because they punish people for being homeless. The case is about laws in Grants Pass, Oregon, a city of about 40,000 in the state's southwest corner. But the outcome could reshape policies nationwide for years to come. Charley Willison teaches Public Health at Cornell University. She's the author of Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States. Charley, in the filings for this case, Grants Pass says, well, these laws are about public health and public safety. The two homeless people who have brought this case say it's really about pushing homeless people out of Grants Pass, getting them to move on to go someplace else. What's your take on that?
This is such an important question. And what this case is really getting at is a deep tension that American cities face when thinking about how to respond to homelessness across the country, but especially in West Coast cities that have very limited shelter capacity and are also in the midst of a housing crisis. And these two tensions that I'd like to emphasize are that cities generally use much more punitive policies. These criminalization approaches that are at the heart of Johnson v. Grants Pass to effectively punish people who are experiencing homelessness for behaviors that are associated with the realities of homelessness. Now importantly, the use of these punitive policies actually facilitates cycles of homelessness and does not effectively end homelessness, while the alternative, addressing homelessness through the use of more housing as well as housing paired with access to social and medical services, does successfully end homelessness. However, we have seen cities across the United States have much less emphasis on the use of housing and supportive services compared to these punitive policies that are at the heart of this case.

[** Johnson v. Grants Pass = 上のように番組内で説明がある通り。
see also: https://johnsonvgrantspass.com/  ]

[20:30] Urban camping, as it's been named, has increased by 200% in the last two years, according to city officials. It's a growing issue that's increasingly dividing Bozeman.

[** urban camping = a euphemism for homelessness, referring to living or sleeping in public spaces within cities. It can also encompass people living in RVs as a form of low-cost housing or temporary shelter, especially in urban settings ]

[24:47] There are good people in Bozeman. It's just the ugly overshadows the good so bad. This is what it's about. We are having these struggles and we are having these problems. But as soon as we get through them, we are going to be okay. We are going to get to the other side.

[** to get to the other side = (in this context) to successfully overcome or survive a hardship or challenging situation.]

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