Veto H437 and Reject Criminalizing Homelessness

House Bill 437 makes it a crime to sleep or camp in public if you don't have anywhere else to go. I'm asking you to veto it before it becomes law. North Carolina doesn't have enough shelter beds for the people already sleeping outside tonight. This bill doesn't fix that. It just turns homelessness into a criminal record, adding fines and court dates for people who already have nothing. A conviction makes it harder to get a job, harder to get housing, harder to ever get off the street. This bill passed the legislature on party lines and landed on your desk enrolled and ready for your signature. Signing it doesn't reduce homelessness in this state, it just hides it behind arrest reports. Real solutions look like shelter capacity and housing support, not citations for sleeping under a bridge. Veto H437. Send lawmakers back to fix the actual shortage of shelter beds instead of criminalizing people who have nowhere else to sleep.