How Many Cities Would Handle Unsanitary Homeless Sites This Way?

   Health care workers, with the help of police, raided a homeless camp in Salt Lake City today in the name of sanitation. Protesters clashed with the police, decrying what they felt was an inhumane way of treating the homeless. 

  Health and sanitation are important, but, I do wonder if they could have gone in, and cleaned things up, and let the homeless stay. Offer to wash their blankets. Or, better yet, give them clean blankets. Haul away urine bottles and replace them with clean ones. Look for another location nearby where they might be more welcome. Bring in portable outhouses so they can be more sanitary.

   It does seem there are things that could be done instead of kicking them out.

   Homelessness and sanitation, then. It would be interesting to survey the various cities of our nation, to see how many favor removing the homeless when the sites become unsanitary. And, how many go in and clean the camps up, but allow the homeless to stay.