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Laws that impose criminal penalties for a homeless person sleep-ing in public, such a law could violate the person's 8th admendment, to be free from cruel and unusual punishment if the person has nowhere else to go. When a city destroys a homeless person's belongings, such actions may violate the 4th admendments rights to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures. Criminalizing homelessness is not only senseless from a perspective, but also runs counter to America's long history of valuing and protecting fairness and justice. The problem of homelessness by criminalizing it, some city initiatives work instead to address the underlying issues, such as a lack of available shelter space. When a city passes a loitering or vagrancy law that provides insufficent notice of what types of conduct it prohibits, or allows for arbitrary enforcement by law, enforcement officials, such a law may be overly vague, in violation of constitution. Laws that restrict or penalize begging may raise free speech concerns, as courts have found beging to be protected under the first admendment. Instead of complaining and possibly violating the rights of the homeless, try helping to find housing solutions and perhaps talk to a homeless person about a possible mental illness that can be causing certain conditions of their actions. Arrange a group to help the mentally ill homeless, help find a solution, not being a part of the problem. Jesus Christ stated at MKatthew 8:20: "Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have roosts, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head".