The camping ban was put on with the promises of getting people into shelters and services to help them out of homelessness. But all it has done is further harm homeless people by way of systemic oppression and violence. Police harassing and citing people for sitting on a stoop or laying down in a public alley with no place to go. Shelters and services have continued to be cut and closed since the ban was approved.

It is time to call this experiment a failure and repeal a ban that does not work. We live in one of the poorest and most taken advantage of states where most of us are one missed paycheck, one missed rent payment away from being on the street too. Why should our city make us suffer more for systemic inequalities and failures?

Call To Action:

Message/call all council members and tell them to repeal this inhumane ban.

Attend a council meeting and speak out. Next is scheduled August 11 at 7pm.



  
[https://www.morgantownwv.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6119/Ordinance\_2024-29---Camping-on-Public-Property-AMENDED---Voted-to-not-repeal-on-April-29-2025-ballot?bidId=](https://www.morgantownwv.gov/DocumentCenter/View/6119/Ordinance_2024-29---Camping-on-Public-Property-AMENDED---Voted-to-not-repeal-on-April-29-2025-ballot?bidId=)

[https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/01/29/project-rainbow-founder-responds-to-proposed-house-bill-488-911-calls/](https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/01/29/project-rainbow-founder-responds-to-proposed-house-bill-488-911-calls/)  
  
[https://www.dominionpost.com/2025/05/01/grace-shelter-capacity-cut-as-camping-ban-approaches/](https://www.dominionpost.com/2025/05/01/grace-shelter-capacity-cut-as-camping-ban-approaches/)  
  
[https://www.dominionpost.com/2025/05/29/shelter-director-estimates-150000-needed-to-boost-capacity/](https://www.dominionpost.com/2025/05/29/shelter-director-estimates-150000-needed-to-boost-capacity/)  
  
[https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/06/24/foreclosure-forcing-housing-program-out-of-west-run-road-facility/](https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/06/24/foreclosure-forcing-housing-program-out-of-west-run-road-facility/)  
  
[https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/07/28/grace-shelter-director-five-plus-turned-away-daily/](https://www.dominionpost.com/2026/07/28/grace-shelter-director-five-plus-turned-away-daily/)



Repeal The Camping Ban