I live across the Columbia river from Portland in the Vancouver Washington area. This past summer, the homeless situation was BAD. B A D. Driving down I-5, there were homeless encampments on both side in pretty much every free space. Graffiti everywhere, etc. The most troubling thing was that A LOT of these homeless were living in cars, or old decrepit RVs. Parked on the side of the secondary roads in the industrial areas wherever there was a free space. But, I took a drive down a few days ago, and they’ve cleaned a bunch of this crap out. I didn’t see ANY cars/vans/RVs being used as living quarters, and the city has put concrete blocks (big ones that you can’t move by hand, or likely destroy without explosives) in all the spots that there had previously been RVs and vans. The tent cities have greatly decreased in size. (Some of them burned and weren’t repopulated, some of them just seemed to move along, and the city came in and cleaned up behind them).
The folks in charge are still leftists, and Antifa still has the “right” to go into downtown and bust out shop windows, and set dumpsters on fire without prosecution. But at least the homeless camps are getting taken care of.
The homeless likely moved to their “summer” homes.