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Criminalizing homelessness
How vagrancy laws have criminalized homelessness.
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Homelessness
A “tent city” in San Francisco, California, during the COVID-19 pandemic, May 2020.
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homeless person and passerby
Homeless person sitting along Wall Street in New York City during the beginning of...
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Kraków, Poland: homeless people receiving food
Homeless people receiving food on Christmas Eve in Kraków, Poland.
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