About a decade ago the homeless were camping in a narrow strip of densely wooded land between a major road in Tallahassee and a K-Mart parking lot. It was about fifty feet wide and you couldn’t see very far into it and seeing through it was impossible.
There had been a rape in the parking lot, traced to a homeless man living in a makeshift tent in the strip of land. The city cut down all the undergrowth in the forested land and kicked out the homeless. Fortunately there was no public hearing and no notice, so the hysterical activists were presented with an accomplished fact that couldn’t be easily undone. But they reacted hysterically nonetheless.
I suspect that the current city leadership would not cut down the trees. After all, it was just a citizen endangered. Nothing important was threatened.
Locally, one of the homeless camps in dense woods is behind several private businesses because there is a stream back there.
An equipment business which is fenced in happened to have an old RV in back. When the owner started to prep the RV for a family member to use, naturally he found squatters living in it. Gross.