Tournament: TFA state | Round: 1 | Opponent: George Ranch MS | Judge: Mohammed Ullah

The value for today's round will be justice – it is the basis for all moral theories, essential to public policy, and is built from the bottom-up

Fainstein 11 (Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is the author of The City Builders and coauthor of Restructuring the City and Urban Political Movements. The Just City pgs 12-14  Accessed 2/22/17)
At this time there is sufficient consensus on the value of justice, if not
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order argument for employing justice, however defined, as an evaluative criterion. 

To act justly, the Criterion is maximizing flourishing. Every actor and institution has an obligation to permit flourishing by getting rid of oppressive structures like homelessness—this is critical to allow the full expression of values and promote justice.

Young 2010 ~Iris Marion. Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, affiliated with the Center for Gender Studies and the Human Rights program @ UChicago. Responsibility for Justice, published by Oxford University Press in 2010. pp.137-9~
Some philosophers reject the claim that the scope of obligations of justice extends only to
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can maximize their ability to act jointly and minimize violent conflict among them.

C1

The action of being homeless has been

criminalized – Whether its sleeping, peeing, or even existing

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty 11 (The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, a 501(c)3 based in Washington, D.C., is the only national legal group dedicated to ending and preventing homelessness.  They operate programs across the United States that serve America's more than 3.5 million homeless families, children and individuals. They believe that the right to a home and food and the rights of children to go to school lie at the heart of human dignity and we envision a world where no one has to go without the basics of human survival. URL https://www.nlchp.org/Criminalizing_Crisis:  Accessed 2/23/17)
The criminalization of homelessness takes many forms, including: • Enactment and enforcement of
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people for conducting life-sustaining activities takes a toll on the entire community

The criminalization of the homeless leads to political exclusion, violence, and absolute degredation – To be just, the government has to reduce this

Will 12 (Amber, published by Valparaiso University, sponsored by the University, specializes in homeless studies. Bachelor in social sciences. URL: http://scholar.valpo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1118andcontext=cus. Accessed 2/24/17)
 Along with the Eighth Amendment, advocacy groups use a few other basic tenets
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to further dehumanize the homeless, which can eventually lead to unnecessary violence.

C2

Hypothermia kills dozens of homeless – These are preventable but we chose to do nothing

Keyes 14 (Scott, senior writer for ThinkProgress, recipient for the David Pike Excellence of journalism award. Url: https://thinkprogress.org/how-many-homeless-people-will-freeze-to-death-this-winter-1c30322038d8~~#.4dl43d7hi  Accessed 2/23/17)
All "~ ~"s are simply for fluidity, no information is changed or disrupted
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13 degrees with wind chill before winter shelter procedures are put in effect.

Temporary housing is massively insufficient both in quantity and quality - Permanent housing solves for hypothermia and offers the stability to come back

O'Malley 16 (Julia, twood Chair of Journalism at the University of Alaska Anchorage, specializes in articles covering the homeless in Alaska and New York. Published by TheGuardian. url: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/24/alaska-homeless-deaths  Accessed 2/23/17)
Caldeira, the program director at the Brother Francis Shelter, said additional winter shelter
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alcohol limit for driving. Nickolai has done that before, she said.

C3

Squatting produces the social movements critical to promoting justice and fighting structures of oppression – An alternative lifestyle is produced through the squatter

Fainstein 11 (Susan S. Fainstein is Professor of Urban Planning in the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is the author of The City Builders and coauthor of Restructuring the City and Urban Political Movements. The Just City pgs 146-149. Accessed 2/22/2107 )
As well as sparking protest, the urban renewal schemes gave rise to a squatters
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social housing (Van Ham, ca Kempen, and van Weesep 2006).