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25 Conn. Pub. Int. L.J. 1 (2025-2026)

handle is hein.journals/cpilj25 and id is 1 raw text is: CONNECTICUT PUBLIC INTEREST LAW JOURNAL VOLUME 25 2025-2026 Number 1 From Property Ownership Requirements and Pauper Exclusions to Residency Requirements: How the United States Systematically Disenfranchises the Homeless Population SOPHIA HOLT Who are to be the electors ... ? Not the rich, more than the poor; not the learned, more than the ignorant; not the haughty heirs of distinguished names, more than the humble sons of obscurity and unpropitious fortune. The electors are to be the great body of the people of the United States.1 I. INTRODUCTION Homelessness is a reality for too many Americans.2 Every night, over half a million people in the United States experience homelessness.3 THE FEDERALIST No. 57 (James Madison or Alexander Hamilton). 2 City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, 603 U.S. 520, 564 (2024) (Sotomayor, J., dissenting). 3Id. Ben Zimmer, 'Unhoused: Without a Home but Without the Stigma, THE WALL ST. J. (April 26, 2024, 8:57 AM), https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/unhoused-without-a-home-but-without-the- stigma-ff8add87 (This author acknowledges that the term homeless, while still generally acceptable according to the 2020 Associated Press Stylebook, is becoming less favored in advocacy circles who are instead opting for the term unhoused or unhoused persons, which is seen as a more accurate