The sad part is that this is actually a huge step up from how things have been there. Before it was just tents everywhere and bums fighting in the street at least now there's some semblance of order.
It's bad though, because with those markings, they've pretty much declared it as an official homeless territory. Not that they were going to fix anything in the first place, but it's the first step to designating all public spaces as "housing for the homeless".
The sad part is that this is actually a huge step up from how things have been there. Before it was just tents everywhere and bums fighting in the street at least now there's some semblance of order.
It's bad though, because with those markings, they've pretty much declared it as an official homeless territory. Not that they were going to fix anything in the first place, but it's the first step to designating all public spaces as "housing for the homeless".