Louisiana bill would force homeless to do slave labor

As Salt Lake City plans to open a concentration camp for the homeless, a bill in Louisiana would take things at least as far.

The Louisiana House has approved a clearly unconstitutional bill that - like the Salt Lake plan - was cut-and-pasted from the far-right Cicero Institute. Like some other unconstitutional laws that have begun to dot America's landscape, this bill would outlaw the homeless by making it illegal to sleep on public property. But it goes further by imposing either a stiff prison term or letting violators avoid prison by being institutionalized for at least one year. Then the person would have to perform unpaid labor to cover the cost of their stay.

This is why we call it fascism.

What we need to do is implement more "housing first" strategies like those that some jurisdictions had success with in the 2010s. This includes Milwaukee and even Utah, though Utah abandoned this successful model because the Cicero Institute told it to.