This involves the enactment of new laws and statutes that are intended to limit or restrict the activities of the homeless, the disproportionate and discriminatory enforcement of existing laws and ordinances, and the manipulation of the physical environment to limit its use by homeless people. This includes hindering the use of public space by designing benches so that people cannot lie down and sleep on them, or by moving ventilation grates from sidewalks to streets. These also include the enactment and enforcement of laws that make it illegal to sleep, sit or store personal items in the public spaces where people are forced to live and include the selective enforcement of more neutral laws, such as loitering, walking the road or the opening of the containers. against homeless people (National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty 2009; McNamara, Crawford, and Burns 2013; Simpson 2015). Others include sweeps of urban areas where homeless people live to force them out of those areas, which often results in damage to an individual's personal property such as important personal documents and medications. Cities also enforce a wide range of “quality of life” ordinances related to public activities and sanitation (e.g., public urination) when public facilities are not available for unhoused people (National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty 2009; Simpson 2015;