If the city cannot support and will not support the homeless that exist in the city, staying in the city is demonstrably degenerate. No amount of hand wringing

If the city cannot support and will not support the homeless that exist in the city, staying in the city is demonstrably degenerate. No amount of hand wringing gets around this. Public concern and municipal willingness to create shelter seems to consistently trail the homeless population severity by orders of magnitude. So what you have a scavengers* that have opportunity to predate on the public and each other along with a trickle of aggregate wealth from access to panhandling and such. Human need to sleep is an incidental trigger for identifying those in need. After it's clear an actor cannot be supported (or doesn't want to be helped), there's no humanitarian way forward that's better than another. Err on the side of society without additional harm to the actor. They are never "charged" nor are they supported beyond what services are available. *My particularly favorite thing was grazing at a grocery store in the morning when they are restocking and packages are open/damaged. Grab a fruit, eat a fruit walking through the store, grab a water and chug it, grab a granola or 2 or 3 or whatever you can get away with because who cares if you jack a couple waters? Dispose of cores/bottles/cans in a backroom box or behind a box or whatever. Move around a lot. Most city police let you go or city you for petty theft, but they tend to talk to each other and remember you.