Below is an article I read the other day.
You can look at it from two perspectives. Financial and Humanity
Financially speaking the Miami city commissioner doesn't realize (or maybe he does) this measure will cost the city more.
It has been shown over and over again that housing a person costs less than allowing a person to live on the streets.
When you add up the expense of incarceration along with medical cost and other services that cost far outweighs the cost of providing housing.
From the Humanity perspective it would appear from the article that the commissioner does not see these people as people, but as criminals or worse, as less than human.
Miami Considers Jailing Homeless People For Eating, Sleeping In Public: pBeing poor could soon be a crime in the city of Miami. As though life weren’t already difficult enough for people who can’t afford regular housing, they could soon find themselves thrown in jail and their possessions confiscated if they’re caught engaging in certain everyday activities in public. Before the late 1990s, Miami police frequently [...]/p
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