If you feed more than four homeless people total, you're a criminal There is a permission to feed homeless on public property process that orgs have followed,

If you feed more than four homeless people total, you're a criminal There is a permission to feed homeless on public property process that orgs have followed, and the result is police giving absurd restrictions to make it useless for achieving the goal (eg requiring the location to be far away and dangerous so that homeless populations won’t travel to it). Police fight it through abusing their power and criminalizing alternatives. Here’s a better article https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-mayor-food-not-bombs-17839562.php https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/houston-may... It is also illegal to be homeless in Texas as of 2021: if you lie or sit in public spaces, it’s a misdemeanor