Last year I made No Room In Paradise, a documentary about the homeless.  Last week, one of the protagonists in the film, a meth addict, reached out to me to ask for help getting into a drug rehab program.  I asked her what was her motivation.   She said it was the sit/lie bans and the sweeps. She knows her camp near H1 is about to get swept.   She's fed-up being shunted around and has decided it's better to try to get clean and put her life back together.  In the two years I spent making the film I encountered many such individuals.  There are many homeless who are, as Kimo Carvalho says, "service resistant."  To the extent that sit/lie bans and sweeps can motivate these people to try to get off the streets, they are useful.  However there are simply not enough drug counselling, detox and rehab programs in the state, not enough mental health care and nowhere near enough case workers.  A carrot and stick policy is justifiable -necessary, even- but only when you have enough carrots.