He asked what would happen in the city if the ordinances were to remain blocked.
“The city’s hands will be tied. It will be forced to surrender its public spaces, as it [already] has been,” Evangelis said.
This is the crux of it. The city does not consider the homeless to be the "public". Can't be homeless and a citizen at the same time apparently.
To make this clear, this is a about the government further destroying the entire concept of "public spaces". Dividing further who counts as "the public".
If only they had someone worth voting FOR.