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Criminalization and Its Devastating Impact
The data also highlights the devastating impact that criminalizing homelessness has had on the population.
Since the Supreme Court decided the Johnson v. Grants Pass case over the summer, more than 100 cities have passed new laws criminalizing homelessness. These laws include prohibitions on public camping and crackdowns on activities associated with homelessness, such as sitting, eating, or lying down in public.
Nearly every city in the country has similar laws on their books, according to the National Homelessness Law Center. These laws have been passed with increasing frequency since 2006.
Meanwhile, investments in affordable housing have lagged, contributing to the growth of homelessness. According to the latest data, the number of shelter beds increased by 13% year-over-year, driven by investments in emergency shelters. These beds offer temporary respite for homeless folks but do little to help individuals find permanent, stable housing.
Cities also invested in other temporary solutions, such as rapid rehousing and community-based housing solutions. According to HUD data, these temporary solutions account for 57% of the total housing inventory.
“What’s most devastating about this latest data is that we know how to end homelessness: quick connections to permanent housing and the range of supportive services people need and want to prevent homelessness in the first place,” Enterprise Community Partners CEO Shaun Donovan said in a statement.
Accountability Among Elected Officials
Other experts, like Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, say that elected officials are to blame for this issue. Evictions are on the rise, and the number of affordable housing units is scarce. These are issues that elected officials can address through thoughtful policies and regulations, but many don’t seem willing to try.
“Our elected officials also deserve blame,” Whitehead said. “They have failed to increase housing…

Just a day after Trump issued a slate of executive orders aimed at restricting immigration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it was rescinding protections for “sensitive zones” where undocumented immigrants were protected from deportation. Some immigrant rights advocates are particularly worried that this could deter women experiencing domestic abuse from going to women’s shelters, which will no longer be protected from U.S. Immigration and Customs  Enforcement (ICE). 
“The Trump Administration will not tie the hands of our brave law enforcement, and instead trusts them to use common sense,” a DHS spokesperson said in a statement. 
The sensitive zones policy, which was created in 2011, initially applied to places like churches, schools and hospitals. In 2021, the list of places was expanded by the Biden administration to include locations offering disaster or emergency relief and social services. The policy was put in place to allow undocumented immigrants access to essential services like health care without the threat of being deported. ICE could enter these places only if there was a threat of terrorism or imminent risk of death, among other exceptions.  
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“What is really important about sensitive zones is that they allow migrant women and families to safely access these spaces without fear that ICE will arrest or deport them there,” said Zain Lakhani, director of the Migrant Rights and Justice Program at the Women’s Refugee Commission. “The impact might be, for instance, that a domestic violence survivor will stay in an abusive situation because they’re being forced to choose between their immediate safety and arrest and deportation if they go to a shelter or take their children to a shelter.” 
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As of July 2024, more than 38,000 disabled people (PDF)—90 percent of whom have intellectual or developmental disabilities (PDF)—earned subminimum wages. The majority of these workers earn under $3.50 per hour (PDF), less than half of the federal minimum wage ($7.25).
Authorized under Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, the subminimum wage was originally intended to create employment opportunities for disabled people at a time when many were institutionalized and excluded from the education system and economic opportunities. 
In recent decades, subminimum wage employment has declined as disabled people’s rights, access to education, and employment opportunities have expanded. The 2014 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, the law governing the public workforce system, prioritizes competitive integrated employment (CIE) for disabled people. CIE is defined as a job where the worker earns the prevailing minimum wage, works alongside nondisabled workers, receives the same benefits as nondisabled workers, and has opportunities for advancement.
The proposed federal rule follows actions by more than two dozen states to phase out or disincentivize 14(c) programs through legislation or state agency initiatives. Research has shown 14(c) programs don’t lead to integrated employment and create economic precarity for people with disabilities. With the proposed rule’s comment period ending January 17, the incoming Trump administration will ultimately have the opportunity to support the financial security and dignity of disabled people by moving the rule forward.
Whether 14(c) is phased out at the local, state, or federal level, insights into how states have eliminated subminimum wages can help other state policymakers develop robust employment pathways for disabled people and better support their overall economic security.
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