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What will be ethe effects of it passing, anyway?
If they criminalize it - and start doing what? I see that their options are to 1) Relocate homeless to a shelter, maybe try to help them square their lives away 2) Simply scatter the number of homeless and force them to try to hide from law enforcement 3) Drive them out of the city 4) Toss them in jail.
Well - #1 requires adequate resources for housing and assistance that people complain about.
#2 and #3 are a blind-eye approach and might scatter the numbers but doesn't reduce the actual number of homeless. . . and will just likely spread their 'problems' to other areas: suburbia, etc.
#4 will result in overcrowded prisons and right back to where we all started.
Seems to me they need to decide what they want to do: just get rid of homeless - or make more efforts to end homelessness.
If they criminalize it - and start doing what? I see that their options are to 1) Relocate homeless to a shelter, maybe try to help them square their lives away 2) Simply scatter the number of homeless and force them to try to hide from law enforcement 3) Drive them out of the city 4) Toss them in jail.
Well - #1 requires adequate resources for housing and assistance that people complain about.
#2 and #3 are a blind-eye approach and might scatter the numbers but doesn't reduce the actual number of homeless. . . and will just likely spread their 'problems' to other areas: suburbia, etc.
#4 will result in overcrowded prisons and right back to where we all started.
Seems to me they need to decide what they want to do: just get rid of homeless - or make more efforts to end homelessness.