People pushing criminalization of homeless people want them to die. There are internal differences over how openly to do this or how fast. This isn’t ignorant or irrational—it is ghoulish. The stakes have to be made clear.
I saw this phrased on Twitter as “homeless people serve the same function as heads on spikes outside a medieval castle, warning the peasants not to step out of line”
This would also seem to be the point of not allowing trans people to use bathrooms.
Or, as Johnathan Brandmeier teaches us: "stay in Milwaukee and die".
It also hits two birds with one stone, whether the people enacting these laws know it or not, given how high if a proportion of unhoused folks in certain states are trans teens who got kicked out of their homes by bigot parents.
Only some of the homeless (the portion already employed but priced out of housing) can become useful slaves. The mentally ill or disabled will be neglected to death in confinement; they'll at least be profit generators for private prisons.
