EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Imagine a world where it is illegal to sit down. Could you survive if there were no place you were allowed to fall asleep, to store your belongings, or to stand still? For most of us, these scenarios seem unrealistic to the point of being ludicrous. But, for homeless people across America, these circumstances are an ordinary part of daily life.
Virginia Beach, which on Monday broke ground on apartments in Bayside for previously homeless adults and is designing a resource center on Witchduck Road for the homeless, doesn't want them on the benches on the Boardwalk.
Armrests have been installed on 15 benches between 18th and 20th streets to keep people from stretching out during the day. It's a misdemeanor to sleep on public property between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., as The Pilot's Stacy Parker reported Sunday.
Some links to the current swedish debate on begging and homelessness among EU-migrants in Sweden.
http://www.socialpolitik.com/tiggeri-vardighet-politik/
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/sverige/hatsk-debatt-om-tiggeri-i-agenda
http://www.dn.se/debatt/darfor-bor-vi-gora-det-forbjudet-att-ge-till-tig...
This report sets out to document the criminalization of homelessness in Canada by exploring the relationship between homeless persons – in particular, street youth - and law enforcement officials (both the police and private security). Drawing from over 240 interviews with street youth in Toronto in 2009, as well as a review of official statistics on Ontario Safe Streets Act tickets in Toronto over the past 11 years, we explore the ways in which homelessness has been criminalized through a law and order agenda.
We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.
We invite our friends all over the world to join our struggle against the criminalisation of homelessness in Hungary.
By Freek Spinnewijn, Director of FEANTSA 
I believe in human rights. I even believe in human rights for people experiencing homelessness. This has to be said, because in many countries, States, and cities, the human rights of people experiencing homelessness are at worst violated, and most often ignored.
Penalising Homelessness
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