[mamonster]

Wow. Thank you very much for the links, I guess I was completely misinformed with regards to this already being a policy for some local governments.

[js2]

The first time I heard of this was Atlanta dealing with its homeless population before the 1996 Olympics and I'm sure that wasn't the first time. It's been going on a long time:

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19960322&slug...

Atlanta also dealt with homelessness by criminalizing it and putting folks in jail:

https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/01/us/as-olympics-approach-h...