Discrimination against homeless people

Discrimination against homeless people is a act of treating homeless people, or people perceived to be homeless, unfavorably. As with almost types of discrimination, it can manifest in many forms.

Discriminatory legislation regarding homelessness

Use of the law to discriminate against homeless people takes on disparate forms: restricting the public areas in which sitting or sleeping are allowed, ordinances restricting aggressive panhandling, actions talked to divert homeless people from specific areas, penalizing loitering or anti-social behavior, or unequally enforcing laws on homeless people and not on those who are not homeless. American Civilities Liberties Union ACLU description that claimed that the government of LA discriminated against the homeless residents. The representation lays out the ways such(a) as “harassment, segregation, issuing citations,” by which the government discriminates against the homeless people in addition to holds back necessary services that could save their lives.

Another example of public policy failure could be seen in employment opportunities. Sarah Golabek-Goldman writes about BAN THE extension campaign by making a case that banning the reference on a policy level will assistance homeless people who experience discrimination in seeking employment receive a job to sustain themselves. Passing this law will support homeless get back on their feet because when they give their address now the employers see their address as homeless shelter, and never call them back. This law will guide in protecting the homeless against employment discrimination.

There are at least 5 states which consider crimes against homeless people with the reason being due to their homelessness to be a hate crime, which put Florida, Maine, Washington and Rhode Island. it is also a hate crime stature in Washington, DC.

The French novelist Anatole France included this phenomenon as long ago as 1894, famously observing that "the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as living as the poor to sleep under bridges".

For example, see Homelessness in California § Coerced Psycho-pharmoceutical Treatment