Well, this is a timely article for me. Just this morning as I was reading my Michigan newsfeed, I came upon an article about a library board member introducing a proposal that library cards should only be mailed to residents and not issued on the spot or otherwise handed over in person.

He stated that he introduced the proposal because he does not believe homeless people should be permitted to use library services.

The library director and some staff who were present protested vehemently, and the proposal did not pass.

However, even after a couple days of controversy, the board member, when contacted by the press, doubled down on his proposition that library services are for county residents only ... not for the homeless.

That's not criminalization of homelessness, not quite, but a belief that somebody who lacks a home is not a resident of the area where they live ...

That's quite the dystopian, dehumanizing attitude.