After Boise ruling, California has several options for addressing homelessness

In response to Boise, Idaho’s, effort to remove homeless people from sidewalks, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the U.S. Constitution forbids punishing someone for a condition over which the person has no control.
Since human biology compels sleep, if there are no other places to sleep than a public sidewalk, then the city can’t punish a person for sleeping on a public sidewalk.
As the court put it:  “We hold only that . . . as long as there is no