WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - Friday morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled cities can ticket homeless people for sleeping outside and that it doesn't violate the 8th Amendment as some people have argued.

Now leaders in Wichita are looking at what this means for the city's current law and where it wants to go from here.

Walking around downtown Wichita you don't have to go far before you run into someone facing homelessness. 

"These are people. It could be us, it could be your brother," said the Union Rescue Mission's chief executive officer David Hodge.

Hodge is passionate about getting people out of the streets and into a shelter where they can get help. He understands there needs to be balance in everything. He agrees with enforcing laws to keep order, but he says cities need to offer real solutions.

"If we start ticketing the people that don't have the resources to live on their own are you digging a deeper hole? Yeah. Yeah you are," he said.

He says you need to have compassion for people experiencing homelessness. That's the same word Wichita City Councilmember Dalton Glasscock used when discussing the topic.

"We're a compassionate community but with compassion we also need to make sure we're enforcing our laws," he said. 

He says he wants people off the streets but he wants to be able to hand them help and not just a ticket. That's why the city is really focusing on ways to support people dealing with homelessness.

"We have the homeless outreach team now that's addressing a lot of our homeless concerns and the city is looking at building our multi agency center beginning later this year," he said.

The City Council will decide Tuesday if it will buy the building that was formerly Park Elementary from Wichita Public Schools for one dollar to use as the location of the MAC.

Hodge says the MAC could be a game changer for Wichita because it will not only be a place those without homes can stay but it will also give them resources to help them get back on their feet.

Glasscock thinks the Supreme Court's decision will let the city enforce its laws more. He says it's not acceptable for people to live on the streets of Wichita, but he doesn't want it to stop with a ticket.

"I don't think fining or ticketing or arresting our way out of homelessness is going to solve anything," he said.

The city's current unlawful camping ordinance says it's only against the law to stay on the street if there is an available shelter. Glasscock says the council will likely discuss this and any possible changes at its next meeting on Tuesday.