If housing were the solution to homelessness, homelessness would have gone down.

Giving them four walls in a bed just doesn't address the issue.

How do you pay for your rent if you can't hold a job?

There are 15 available units that are just still sitting empty because they want to continue using drugs.

Nobody wants to follow the rules.

No lease in America says you can use drugs on your property.

Addiction and mental health is being under acknowledged as a role in all of this.

Last night, we began to unravel a debate over whether criminalizing acts of homelessness

should be looked at as a solution to getting people off the streets.

Now, at the heart of the debate is whether cities and states have the right to criminally punish people

experiencing homelessness for sleeping in public.

Now, from advocates to residents

and the homeless themselves, many are divided.

Here's what happened yesterday.

There is no question homelessness is a crisis in America

with a debate over how to solve this human tragedy being hotly contested.

Graspass has gained national attention because of a court case between local homeless individuals

and the city. Now at the heart of the matter is whether it is cruel and unusual punishment

for the city to arrest and find people

for sleeping outside in public.

The case has gone all the way to the Supreme Court.

Missy is a resident of Grants Pass.

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