A few homeless people in a neighborhood provide color and are much more likely to receive needed help from residents. In fact, before the city began dumping camps in my neighborhood and leaving the illegal river camping and street camping my family  used to regularly take homeless people in and help them get restarted. Thus, putting a camp in each neighborhood (not just each ward) will likely work well for all concerned.

However, city action and inaction has led to a situation where 20% of the "residents" of the Whiteaker are homeless people. That has had some very serious negative synergy. I can't find a person in my neighborhood who hasn't had their mail stolen over the past three years. Everyone has had at least one bike stolen, and many have had several. When the stolen bikes are found they are, not surprisingly, in the possession of homeless people. Moving only one of the camps is not a big enough bone for the Whiteaker. The city council can expect to see us in force.