Karen Stintz: Give the homeless an address, not the right to an encampment

PHOTO BY PETER J THOMPSON/NATIONAL POST Article content There was a time when governments made policy decisions based on data and expected outcomes that would benefit society. Now that job is being replaced by activists and the courts, who use false logic to drive outcomes that, by any measurement, result in social and moral failure. Article content Encampments in our cities are one such example of failed policy responses. Can you imagine any political party running on a platform that promised to make homelessness a Charter-protected right? Yet, this has happened, and governments at every leve…