Credit: Flickr Photo/Elvert Barnes (CC-BY-NC-ND) When Survival Becomes A Crime: How City Laws Affect The Homeless By Amina Al-Sadi Marcie Sillman May 06, 2015 at 3:36 pm Marcie Sillman talks to Sara Rankin, law professor at Seattle University, about the how city ordinances and laws affect the homeless in Washington cities.