Property and liability are important!

They had us in the first half, ngl.

Is sleeping in your car being illegal some sort of FREEDOM©®™ thing that I'm way too European to understand?

Sleeping in a car isn't illegal necessarily, but there are increasing popup communities that settle in empty/low traffic lots and live out of their vehicles. Like most of America's problems, our politicans are sending police forces to "clean up" the effect, instead of trying to solve the cause.
Here's an article on Vehicle Residency https://www.thenation.com/article/society/homelessness-vehicle-residency-housing/
- Sleeping in your car is actually illegal in a lot of places.
  In Ohio I'd have to wake up every couple of hours to switch parking lots to avoid cops/loitering charges
Sleeping in your car in public is not allowed in Germany either
- Afaik it is allowed as long as its only to regain your driving capabilities and not for multiple nights I'm a row on the same place. The Straßenverkehrsordnung does not state otherwise.
- It is absolutely allowed in Germany. Private parking lots can forbid it, but on public parking space it's allowed
In some places, parking lots are monitored by security and you'll be kicked out if you're sleeping in your car in the parking lot.
I see a lot of areas with "No Overnight Parking" signs or something similar, so they don't make sleeping in your car illegal technically, but you can't stay there over night.
- Sleep during day, party with neighbors at night
Often times it's loitering charges, loitering being a fancy term for "being out in public whenever it displeases a person of authority". Sitting on a public bench, having a picnic, walking on a sidewalk, sleeping in your car, whatever, all of those can and will get you loitering charges depending on your exact location in the United States.
Then you have public intoxication charges which on paper are only supposed to apply if you're causing a public disturbance (despite disorderly conduct already being a charge for that, public intoxication just makes it more severe), but in reality it's mostly used to harass drunk people who couldn't get a ride home, or uber home, and decided not to drive while drunk. I wouldn't be surprised if you had a higher likelihood of getting arrested for public intoxication while drunk walking/public transporting home than of getting arrested for DUI while drunk driving home. But public intoxication and even DUI can also be used if you're sleeping off drunkenness in your car, while the car is turned off.
- Don't forget local "no camping" laws meant to keep homeless people from sleeping in their cars on public property/public parking.
Less actually illegal and more that the lots are privately owned and the owning companies can have you removed from the lots of they don't like what you're doing.
It's illegal in the netherlands too
- You have cars? I thought all cars are forcibly seized and replaced with bikes at the border.
In australia, it can be illegal too. Only 1 state has actually made it 100% illegal, that state being Queensland (which is a rather big state too, stupidly enough). Where I'm from (Victoria), it's not illegal at a state level, but some councils prohibit it in their local bylaws. In the rest of our states and territories the act of sleeping in your car isn't illegal, but some of the more affluent and snobby areas try to get around that by not offering anywhere to park overnight without permits or living in the area

There should be secret laws you have to unlock by doing unfathomably inhumane things.

"You chased a homeless person in their own car off your completely unutilized property for no reason other than malice. You've been sentenced to 12 hours of fighting a flock of geese naked while locked in a middle school gym."

First time I’m rooting for the geese, usually they’re the assholes.
There should also be some extra sauce on the sentencing for anyone who carries a badge or position of legal power and abuses that.
- Twice as much geese which are thrice as pissed?
Solo Leveling Penalty Game huh? Damnit, I'm in! What do I get for being someone in HR denying someone a job for reasons of "I just wasn't feeling it."?
- You? Nothing, you're just being a good cog in a bad machine. Bossman? Rashes, but on the inside of their skin, but that's likely compounded by numerous other crimes.
The idea of secret laws seems incompatible with democracy
- it's ok, so are humans. Hopefully the geese win?
- Which is different from normal bullshit selective laws how?
I prefer a cordial introduction to everyone's favorite friend in red.
Why the geese have to be named?🤪

It should be illegal to force people to sleep in their cars because a depraved system has deprived them of decent housing..

Yeah, in an article talking about how news stories about crime often show pictures of tents, they pointed out that the photo is of a crime scene, but the crime was not committed by those living in the tents.

That got me. It really does sound like what a "lawyer" would write.

Hod can we stop treating that like a special body of knowledge and start treating it like the target it is?

I hate Walmart, but they let people sleep in the parking lot there. Cars, RVs, whatever. So if you're ever unfortunate enough that you're stuck sleeping in your car, you can park at Walmart without getting harassed.

Actually Walmart does not allow it, but most stores don’t care. My local one had a guy unalive himself in his car surrounded by other multi day parked cars. It took them 3 days to see all the others cars leave and he was inside. So now they enforce it. Understandably so.
- Why say "unalive" here on lemmy?
When I was in this position in my life I used parking lots of 24 hour gyms never once got hassled or disturbed.

No one should have to be forced to sleep in a car in the first place.

Unless it's one of these
- No one has to be forced to sleep in something that rad.
- Especially if you get the CB radio so you can talk to other car beds

Lazy people in houses doing drugs and drinking...

Whoa, all of us lazy people doing light drug use catching strays
Doing drugs and drinking instead of going out there and getting a job? That's just lazy talk!
- (A lot of homeless people are employed, and do not have drug/alcohol issues.)
  A lot of people do both a job and drinking/drugs at the same time. It just saves time.