"Leading with housing status for homeless people is a common trope in the news reporting business and one in urgent need of re-examining. In many cases, it is used as a rhetorical device to depict people experiencing homelessness as a threat to public safety, a common right-wing canard used to justify virulently anti-homeless policies and harsh policing of people perceived to be poor."

(If this sounds like an episode of Citations Needed, it is written by Adam Johnson)

Boulder Daily Camera editors against the camping ban.

Witnesses say police are collecting and destroying belongings on "Methadone Mile."

Folks from Denver Homeless Out Loud talk about the criminalization of homelessness on the Brew Theology podcast.

On how BIDs push for the criminalization of homelessness using Denver's urban camping ban and Downtown Denver Partnership as its primary example.

For a book-length treatment of this and similar issues, I recommend Randall Amster's _Lost In Space: The Criminalization, Globalization, and Urban Ecology of Homelessness_ (2008) which examines the role BIDs play in criminalizing homelessness using the struggles over the sit-lie ordinances in Tempe, AZ, as a case study.

"It is those same government-funded charities that push the narrative that “kindness kills” as they tout for your donations. Do not believe them. Apathy and austerity kill. Your kindness saves lives."

An investigation into the practices of private security at Denver's Union Station and 16th Street Mall after four guards beat a homeless man in the bathroom and then tried to cover it up.

An audio version read by the journalist is available: https://soundcloud.com/user-11498782/on-guard

Boulder police keep citing homeless people for charging their phones, but District Attorney Michael Dougherty refuses to prosecute the cases.

- 20% of renter households in Richmond were threatened with eviction in 2016
- Of those actually evicted, the median amount owed was $686
- Judgments issued in majority white neighborhoods were far less common
- Mr. Desmond’s eviction calculations are probably conservative: They include only households that touched the legal process, not those in which people moved with an informal warning