If anything, sweeps and arrests will make homelessness *worse*, by destroying the possessions, medication and stability that homeless people *need* if they are to become housed.
Today, *The American Prospect* published an *excellent* package on the housing emergency, looking at its causes *and* the road-tested solutions that can work even when the federal government is doing everything it can to make the problem worse:
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2024-12-11-tackling-the-housing-crisis/
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