Earlier this week, Homewood passed an ordinance that tightens rules on the homeless, forbidding encampments in public parks without a permit, sleeping in cars in public places and leaving personal belongings on public property.
A crackdown on the homeless in Homewood may have a ripple effect in neighboring cities, most likely in Birmingham, where homelessness remains rampant.
“You can expect, when you make it illegal for homeless to be in one area, that they will migrate to adjacent areas,” said Perryn Carroll, executive director of the Jimmie Hale Mission in Birmingham…