Former Hawaii Sen. and current Director of Environmental Quality Control Gary Hooser has an interesting Community Voice on Civil Beat this morning.

Here’s a representative snippet, which criticizes the city’s new law to ban personal possessions from public spaces:

Push them into the shelters seems to be the mantra. Do not feed the homeless. Make them go to the shelters if they want to eat. This is tough love. Withhold the feedings, send police to dismantle their camps, take away and destroy their personal items and make them go into the shelters where they can be fed, monitored, cared for, and warehoused properly.

Read the full piece here: On Christmas Shopping, The Homeless And Tough Love