Tiny properties and difficult legal guidelines are altering homelessness in American cities

California is quickly reshaping its strategy to homeless tent encampments within the wake of final yr’s Supreme Courtroom ruling that allowed cities to enforce anti-camping bans even when individuals have nowhere else to go.

There are roughly 275,000 individuals living unsheltered in the US, with over half of them in California, and the Grants Move v. Johnson resolution has emboldened cities to interrupt up such encampments and broaden “interim housing” choices, like tiny house shelters and motel rooms, to maneuver individuals extra shortly off the road.