The most coherent argument I've heard from is that the whole point of this policy is to ping-pong the homeless around till they naturally congregate in areas far enough out of site that nobody will bother reporting them anymore. So basically forcing them into massive isolated encampments so you don't have homeless people in public parks and shit.

Honestly if that's the fucking goal why not just be honest and have the state buy some vacant lots and make sanctioned "camping sites". At least then NGOs and shit could set up like showers and clinics and stuff nearby them. But knowing Amerikkka they'd probably just become concentration camps.

God forbid some just build some fucking public housing.

Liberals would legalize murdering the homeless if they thought they could get away with it. But since they can't do that, they pretend like homeless people disappear if no one is looking at them. They think the problem goes away if you throw away all their stuff and tell them they can't stay there.

Reduces homelessnes via number shuffling, i.e. moving homeless across county lines makes it harder for them to be officially recorded. Like all things neoliberal it is the appearance of wellness but nothing true or substantial. Instead of money going into housing, shelters, rehabilitation, and job programs we spend more money into a police force well drilled into treating human beings like the way one herds cattle.

He is probably just ~~lying~~ using PR nonsense speak. But I wouldn't be surprised if they used some tortured definition of homelessness that meant if they can't track a person for X consecutive nights they won't be included in the statistica.

The point is to make it easier for cops to brutalize unhoused people.

If you're trying to move everything you own you are not at that moment homeless.