Ted Wheeler plans to ban "unsanctioned camping" by 2024, and construct six "large, designated and professionally-managed" campsites for the homeless. If "unsanctioned camping" is banned, homeless people will have no choice but to live in the camps or risk arrest - and if they are forced to live in the camps, we need only to look to the past to see what could happen to them.
By the 2020s, the American government – reacting to serious problems of homelessness and unemployment – created special Sanctuary Districts (essentially walled-off sections of the city grid) in most major cities. Unfortunately – while established with the benevolent intent of providing free housing and food, as well as prospects for future employment – the Sanctuaries quickly degenerated into inhumane internment camps for the poor. Even though people with criminal records were not allowed inside Sanctuaries, it didn't take long for the homeless and unemployed to be joined by the mentally ill and other, more violent, social outcasts. These groups were referred to by their slang terms – gimmies, dims, and ghosts.
It's remarkable and yet entirely unsurprising that DS9's dystopian ghettos that were nominally setting the stage for the Eugenics Wars and the nuclear horrors of WWIII were less overtly and deliberately evil than the shit mayors of major "liberal" cities IRL are doing just out of hand.
