ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Homeless dumping

Okay kiddo, imagine you're playing a game of tag with your friends and you suddenly find yourself "tagged" as homeless. It means you don't have a house or a place to sleep at night. Now, imagine that some people can be really mean and don't want you playing in their yard or on their street. They don't like seeing you because they think you make the place look bad.

Sometimes, these mean people get really mean and decide they don't want homeless people in their city or town at all. So they come up with a plan to make you go away. This plan is called homeless dumping. It's when people force you to leave their area and go somewhere else by bringing you far away from your home and dropping you off there.

But it's not like they're taking you to a better place. They usually take you to a place that's really far away from the city and has no homes or shelters. They do it in secret, so no one sees them do it.

It's not safe for homeless people to be dumped like this because they might not know where they are and they might not be able to get home. They could also end up sleeping outside, and that's not good because it's cold and dangerous outside.

Homeless dumping is never okay. Everyone deserves a safe place to live and should be treated with kindness and respect, no matter what their situation is.