This is a serious topic, thanks for bringing it to awareness @johnvibes!
States just want to get rid of the 'bums', only keep the wealthy. What a concept, all over 1st world!
btw. in western Europe it has been illegal to sleep in cars since they introduced this law in the 1940s...
I live in a bus half year round, and for this I always have to relocate to the former communist countries; as a socialist leftover the land belongs to everyone in those countries.