Berkeley, California, is repressing homeless people, as it fills up with wealthy people instead of the progressives that used to live there.

Living on the street is already in effect a punishment. It can't be just for the "solution" for this problem to include further punishment of the homeless.

Anatole France: "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."