Private citizens are behind the push for homeless criminalization, too. Enabling homelessness results in more of it, either by attracting the homeless from less

Private citizens are behind the push for homeless criminalization, too. Enabling homelessness results in more of it, either by attracting the homeless from less friendly communities or by making it safer for people to make decisions that put them over the edge into or allow them to remain in the homeless lifestyle. Does it still need to be said that the homeless aren’t a monolith of the victimized? If you live in a community where the parks and trails have become unusable, where walking sidewalks has become unsafe, it’s a very different community experience that hasn’t fostered faith in the development of homeless policy in last twenty years.