I wish I was joking. 😭 There's multiple reports of police grabbing up ALL of a homeless person's belongings, their tents, their sleeping bags, their clothing, etc., and throwing it all into dump trucks. Homeless people have even lost pets that way as the police will rush in, and grab the entire tent, no matter what's inside of it, and throw it in and animals have been killed due to that. Crushed to death in dump trucks. I could show you newspaper articles on it but I dunno if your gentle heart could take that.

It is, sadly, very common here. In Florida, a minister was arrested and throw into jail multiple times for putting out tables and feeding the poor. And police departments will grab ALL the food, dump it into trash bags and then dump tons of bleach and other chemicals over it to make it too toxic to eat.

Some organizations HAVE tried to build tiny home communities only for the locals to scream foul because "poor people moving here!" "They'll bring crime and disease!" And other such epithets, and the local politicians will shrug, make it illegal, and the homeless individuals will be kicked out of the tiny homes and the tiny homes will be towed away. They'll either be auctioned off, with the money going to the city and police departments, or simply burned down or dismantled and sent to landfills. In the USA, despite what their politicians try to say on podiums, if you're homeless, no matter what your age is, what you did, or didn't do, for this nation, how you ended up homeless, etc., you are no longer considered human. You are no longer considered worthy of humane treatment. And that is a cruel fact I've observed multiple times.

I've sheltered two full homeless families in my home and helped them get back to their feet, and a young man whom I met online a few years ago, he ended up homeless, I now have him living with us while he works to complete college - he graduates this year in December. An associate's degree in IT.