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Washington State Ban on the Unhoused (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

a state should be rapidly obligated to house IT’S homeless, not ALL OF AMERICA’S homeless

This is unconstitutional under the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Justice Miller explained that one of the privileges conferred by this Clause "is that a citizen of the United States can, of his own volition, become a citizen of any State of the Union by a bona fide residence therein, with the same rights as other citizens of that State."

So all a homeless person would have to do is travel to any state; claim residence, which wouldn't be hard since they don't exactly have a home; and then petition the state for housing. I didn't have a primary address and did this a few months ago, and was able to get SNAP and Medicaid through the state.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You clearly understand the situation I'm describing. This is a high level situation.

Responding with the pedantry of existing law is in bad faith, as the nature of my comment clearly speaks of future hypotheticals.

The operative word is "should". any critically capable reader (uh oh!) should be able to detect I'm discussing the practical, hypothetical challenges any given state would face, of they found the sufficient funds and motivation to pursue this topic far beyond their neighbors: they would see an influx of folks looking for these serbices, thus overwhelming their isolated effort.

The complication would be coordinating efforts across the country to provide services as I described, at such a pace and parity that regions, and then states would not become overly burdened by migrating homeless.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Trying to sell this idea to people—this idea that the Constitution will get changed to support this fantasy of yours—as anything other than mad ravings is what's bad faith in this conversation. Confront the reality of the situation if you are truly interested in making change happen.

Men will not look at things as they really are but as they wish them to be and they are ruined.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Miss.

What I'm selling is the need for many states, or the federal government to act in coordination, such that one state isn't the only place homeless folks can go for these services