Personnal and friends experience tends to agree with the article advice. The intensity of the ask vary from "It's my bike" to "It's my bike and we don't want to call the cops about it, right?". Most of the time, they may try to sell it back to you though.
I’m afraid to ask, but which country was this?
It’s not “progressiveness” that attracts homeless encampments, it’s density.
Where there are people, there are resources. It’s got nothing to do with politics.
If you look at each state’s share of the total number of people in the US experiencing homelessness, is unsurprising that the states with most are also home to the latest cities. Texas is low per capita, at a state level, but when you look at rates within cities then Texas and Florida and Arizona cities start to pop up.
It’s not like conservative local governments have “solved” homelessness.
As long as there is homelessness, dense urban areas will always have the largest share of people experiencing homelessness because there are simply more resources, in the general sense, there. Where there are people, there are resources.
Let’s not forget climate as well. California, and the West coast, have a pretty favorable climate in general.