In Chicago the cops keep the bums moving. "Get up...Get movin"
It works real well. Bums like to sit.... so they go somewhere else.
When the Communists took over the Russians, they shot all the homeless. End of problem. Guess we can't do that.
In Merry Olde England, they used to be given twenty lashes and orders to move along
I used to work in the Brentwood district of West Los Angeles (O.J. Simpson murder country)...every summer the flocks of bums and panhandlers would really expand.
My reasoning was that it was the "flyway" between downtown Los Angeles and homeless-friendly Santa Monica.
They'd migrate their way west to the cooler climes of the beach.
One way, non refundable, bus tickets to San Fransisco,
and a grocery bag each, filled with PB sandwiches,
Bologna sandwiches, and a plasitic gallon milk jug
to refill at the bus stop layovers....problem solved.
Best capital expediture a city could make.