https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages
The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.
Ah yes, the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode.
You'd think ghettoes for the homeless are a bit on the nose, and yet the US is heading that way and on schedule too.
You see, if we concentrate our undesirable population into camps etc etc