JD – What tree branches are being broken or landscape damaged? Not clear from the photo attached to this complaint.

If we want to help people not live on the streets, it's vital that the alternatives be offered that meet their needs. Just saying "Get those f***** tents out of here!" is not constructive or helpful, and gives the impression of an authoritarian mindset toward homeless people and their belongings as just furniture to be moved around by others at their whim.

Let's not forget that public space belongs to everyone. No one's civil rights are being violated by other people's peaceful use of public space so long as there is adequate room for them as well.

If a tent or something is blocking a sidewalk, better to work with the owner(s) to move or adjust it to fix that specific issue, rather than snltching on them to government and demanding they be removed from an entire area.