“I’ve been here all my life. Six weeks old when I came here, and I never knew anything about homelessness until now,” Young said.
“The things that you see out there, the people that you meet; there’s a whole lot of people there that shouldn’t be. They want to have housing. They don’t want to live out there. People think that we just want to be outside; it’s not that way,” Young said.“It’s terrifying because it takes forever for tomorrow to come,” Young said.
“In Grants Pass, they don’t require shelter and they’re regulating individuals who might be in a park. The City of San Diego goes further than that. We actually do, in most cases, access to a shelter bed,” Whitburn said. In the Supreme Court’s decision, Justice Neil Gorsuch writes, in the opinion of the court,"Nothing in today's decision prevents states, cities, and counties from going a step further and declining to criminalize public camping altogether."