...to be clear, the people in the illegal homeless camps ARE BEING OFFERED THE OPTION OF HOMELESS SHELTERS AND/OR PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT.
The homeless are not simply being swept away and offered no options.
A big reason they prefer homeless tents to shelters, etc is because they can use drugs freely there and not in the monitored homeless shelter setting. There are others who have an outstanding arrest warrant hiding there.
Trump is cleaning this up, and the mayor of DC has stopped the rhetoric and is starting to play ball with Trump probably because she wants to be seen on the right side of the clean up efforts and later claim credit among the Democrats. Regardless, it is working already,
and a lot of other cities without the good fortune of DC are going to start thinking about this. Dems can only gerrymander their power in these failed blue state cities so far.