Free services accompanied by the relaxing of penalties on habitual rule breakers (elimination of background checks, injection sites with free supplies, regular vacation of all misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors, limiting police patrols, obstruction of DEA and ICE) encourages more people to move in from elsewhere. Measures that may have accommodated the original homeless population fall apart with the massive influx, and the street environment for the local lower and middle class worsens with all the new opportunists.