"Sweeps" without the offer of reliable and private shelter are little more than pointless cruelty. "Out of sight, out of mind" is not a rational way to approach any kind of problem.
Slight tangent story: While overall I think open carry laws are not the best idea, one positive use case I've seen manifest in Texas is mutual aid groups. Usually they run unofficial soup lines and things like that, but they also started lining up conspicuously armed with rifles and body armor around a homeless camp whenever police try to "sweep" the people living there. Not making threats or pointing their weapons - behaving perfectly legally per Texas legislation and case law - just being present and offering to happily leave if the city provides a written and signed one year apartment lease to everyone in the camp, or something in that vein.
It's usually effective in at a minimum getting the police to buzz off, and sometimes at getting real help to these people since "casually bully and push them around" is taken away as an option.
Slight tangent story: While overall I think open carry laws are not the best idea, one positive use case I've seen manifest in Texas is mutual aid groups. Usually they run unofficial soup lines and things like that, but they also started lining up conspicuously armed with rifles and body armor around a homeless camp whenever police try to "sweep" the people living there. Not making threats or pointing their weapons - behaving perfectly legally per Texas legislation and case law - just being present and offering to happily leave if the city provides a written and signed one year apartment lease to everyone in the camp, or something in that vein.
It's usually effective in at a minimum getting the police to buzz off, and sometimes at getting real help to these people since "casually bully and push them around" is taken away as an option.