Posted on November 2, 2015 by Petula Dvorak in The Washington Post The Washington Post, By Petula Dvorak Did you know that it’s against the law in more than 50 U.S. cities to give food to a homeless person? That nearly half of our cities prohibit people from sleeping in cars (according to a report by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty)? And that more than half of the nation’s cities make it a crime to sit or lie down in certain public spaces?