Louisiana, State With Highest Poverty Rate, Considers Jailing Unhoused People
New Orleans — As the Louisiana state Senate debated what the National Homelessness Law Center says is “one of the cruelest anti-homeless bills in the country,” more than 50 mainly Black unhoused people sat and lay on the sidewalk in New Orleans’ Central City neighborhood. The bill, which already passed…
bubmagMay 4, 2026