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In Rhode Island, the sidewalks are belong to the homeless and their lawyers
Rhode Island is being crushed by pension debt, our cities are suffocating, we’re driving businesses away with regulatory minutiae, and we’re hemorrhaging young people. Oh, and we just threw away up to $75 million on a video game company run by a former baseball player.
So what are our Governor and legislature spending their time on?
Rhode Island’s governor is expected to sign into law the first “Homeless Bill of Rights” in the United States as early as next week, formally banning discrimination against homeless people and affirming their equal access to jobs, housing and services.
The legislation, which won final approval by the state Senate on Wednesday, bucks a national trend among municipalities toward outlawing behaviors associated with homelessness such as eating, sleeping and panhandling in public spaces.
Among other steps, the Rhode Island law would guarantee homeless people the right to use public sidewalks, parks and transportation as well as public buildings, like anyone else “without discrimination on the basis of his or her housing status.”
It guarantees a “reasonable expectation of privacy” with respect to personal belongings similar to that of people who have homes.
cfm990
June 15th, 2012
All across America, Mayors are contemplating the cost to charter buses.
reddecaesari
June 15th, 2012
my daughter attended school in providence, rhode island. a cesspool.
Unneutral
June 15th, 2012
Let the homeless camp on the sidewalk in front of the governors residence and see how long that lasts.
Sidekick
June 15th, 2012
Beat me to it, cfm. Rhode Island will be a national storage site for these bums and drunks. Fantastic.
scr_north
June 15th, 2012
Is Rhode Island a real State? Isn’t it more like a state of mind, like being retarded or Conneticut?
michellesbigbeavr
June 15th, 2012
Does that mean they can shit on the sidewalks like they do in San Fran? Didn’t the Occupy movement teach these tards anything about disease?
Justsomebody
June 16th, 2012
Homeless Bill of Rights? What next Illegal Alien
Bill of….nevermind, that was yesterday’s news.
Dr. Tar
June 16th, 2012
So I guess Providence didn’t have an occupy camp in the middle of their city last year? If not their going to get the scrappings from the bottom of the ows movement now. See what liberal brownie points get you.