Tennessee charges homeless man under felony camping law

1.Privatize Prisons. Allow prisons to rent out inmates as dirt cheap labor 2.Keep wages low, prices high and let private equity buy homes. Bam, affordable housing crisis 3.Remove social safety nets and Make homelessness a crime 4.Congrats! you have a new slave system www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

Every time I see states passing and enforcing camping bans I am reminded of the ugly laws that people fought so hard to overturn. These laws are designed purely to erase unhoused neighbors.

With prices skyrocketing, I'd like to remind everyone that they're charging people with a felony for camping on public property in some areas.

Let's make having no place to live illegal instead addressing immoral income disparity, greed, and selfishness Almost every other country suffering poverty actually love and support their neighbors. www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

Tennessee - A homeless man was charged with a felony for camping. He's one of the first www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

"The maximum penalty for felony camping in Tennessee is six years in prison. Williams pled to a lesser charge and was released from jail after nine days."

Make homeless camping legal within 500 feet of every church in America. www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

Meanwhile, back in America, some states are criminalizing homelessness. In Tennessee, sleeping or camping on certain public property can even lead to felony charges. Instead of investing in housing, mental health care, and treatment, governments are turning desperate people into criminals.

Eleven states have passed homeless camping bans over the last four years, according to the National Homelessness Law Center.2 years since the Supreme Court ruled that cities can ban people from sleeping and camping in public, more than 300 municipalities have joined them www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

A felony for homeless camping in public? 1 state is making arrests : NPR https://www.npr.org/2026/07/21/nx-s1-5887358/tennessee-homeless-arrest-felony-camping-ban

FUCK NASHVILLE AND FUCK TENNESSEE!!! Sleeping in a public park is a FELONY punishable by 6 years in PRISON?! GO FUCK YOURSELVES, you Nazi bastards!!! www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...

We have entered a post-truth, post-liberal, post-human rights reality in America. Before you say he should stay in a shelter, why don't you give it a shot? Most privileged types would walk in, look around, and walk right back out. I've slept rough and I've slept in shelters.

Makes sense. Easier to throw him in jail than to throw him in a home. www.npr.org/2026/07/21/n...