I have the same exact problem here in California.
It's almost as if the cities want the homeless to remain homeless even if a section of the homeless are willing not to be
It keeps property prices low because the main thing that makes a house a $400,000 house is being surrounded by $400,000 houses. In our town you could always have a trailer across the street owned by a someone from a family that has a street named after them.
Having zoning in the town is a controversy, something that some people want to do because they want to keep Dollar General out, but it seems absurd to thing Dollar General would harm other businesses in the area or somehow turn the area into a food desert if it isn't already.
IDK how upto date you are on this but in California this arbitrage opportunity is gone.
"thinly veiled threats about calling INS" is no longer a point of leverage, actually a quick way to lose any farm hands in California.
The current arbitrage opportunity in California are to use these people for EDD and WIC fraud but this is offtopic for this post and likely too political for HN.