They don't care about the homeless so they don't care that those poor people will still be homeless somewhere else. The rich just no longer have to see the unhoused -out of sight out of mind- as they say. Then since they're now out of mind, they don't have to fix or offer viable solutions for homelessness. The rich hope those poor people die as they're deemed morally terrible people who are there directly because of their own failings. Plus it makes more slave labor available for today's private prisons across the nation.

It's extermination. With nowhere to go they are expected to die.

It's almost impossible for politicians to confront their masters profiting from the housing crisis (eg. landlords, capital). But it's extremely easy and self-satisfying for them to demonize and violently attack their victims.

I think most people in California support the crackdown. California tried the compassionate approach for many years, but we are sick of seeing meth heads in our downtowns. From the article, these people are being offered shelter beds and are refusing them. They are turning down help. There has to be a limit.