The law specifies certain times and locations where it will be 'unlawful for a person to sit, lie, or sleep, or to store, use, maintain, or place personal property in the public right-of-way'.
The ordinance, which will go into effect 30 days from last Thursday, makes it illegal to sit, lie, sleep, or set up encampments within 500 feet from 'sensitive use' properties, which include schools, parks, libraries, overpasses, underpasses, freeway ramps, tunnels, bridges, pedestrian bridges, subways, washes, spreading grounds and active railways.
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The only thing that's going to happen for sure is the homeless population will just move on to greener pastures.
I saw it time and time again when I was doing advocacy work for the homeless 20 years ago. They'll do actual research at the library or someplace else with free computer usage to find out which cities had more services and less restrictive laws, and they'll pick up and move there.
