[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Here's how the conversation goes:
Cop: You'll have to leave now.
A back and forth conversation ensues. Eventually...
Homeless: Where should I go?
Cop: Somewhere other than here.

Homeless picks up his stuff and walks a few blocks away, and sets his stuff down again.

Rinse, repeat.

Until you have a place for them to GO, they will continue to go wherever it's convenient for them to go. And if that means your back yard, then that's where they'll go. When they're ordered to go somewhere else, they'll end up in someone else's back yard. And so on and so forth, til they're back in your back yard again. I use "back yard" metaphorically - meaning - your part of the Villages, the dumpster behind the nearest Winn Dixie, the woods under the nearest bridge, by the edge of the river, wherever you consider "your turf" to be.

Exactly this. I used to have a regular I encountered, now deceased. Michael Armstrong. I actually liked the guy, even though he was a drunken homeless problem-causer. When called to deal with him, I always asked Mike, "Mike, what's the golden rule?" Mike would reply, "Out of sight - out of mind." Essentially, go somewhere where people won't call the police on you. Alleys, behind the library, behind grocery stores, wooded areas like freeway rights of way, etc.

There was little else I could do to help him, he had either abused and been refused social and religious services, or refused to utilize them.