Re:Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of home...
by jcoffland on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @06:30PM
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> Driving people elsewhere is one major mechanism.
This is exactly how Boise has kept it's homeless population low for many years. First they ticket people, then jail them and finally offer to let them go if they get on a bus headed out of the state.
Driving people elsewhere is one major mechanism.
That can mean to other cities - it's a zero-sum game, but so is buying homeless people bus tickets to leave, and cities do that too.[1] It can also mean pushing them outside city limits into the metro area, or into less-desirable areas with fewer officers and/or informal instructions not to ticket the homeless. (Similarly, arresting homeless people isn't meant to house them in jail, but to get them out of heavily-policed areas.)
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...