Personally I would have passed bylaws allowing say 2 or 3 tents a block, size limits on the tents and an absolute ban on having stuff outside the tents, I would likely also spray the sidewalks down every morning which frankly the area needs anyway as it is literally a toilet and reeks but also causes people to pack up every day.
there are homeless camps outside the DTES that no one hassles because they are pretty clean and unobtrusive, the issue on the DTES is essentially we have told a group of profoundly mentally ill people that they can do what ever they want, take as much cheap deadly drugs as they want, be preyed on by dealers and low level pimps as much as possible and we dont care
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