In this March 3, 2020 photo released by the University of Maryland via the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, Washington, D.C., officials confer under a railroad overpass on L Street NE, about eight blocks from the U.S. Capitol, before garbage trucks and front loaders remove the homeless encampment there. (Susannah Outhier/University of Maryland via AP)

In this May 5, 2020 photo provided by Boston University via the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, a homeless man, left, sits on the ground in Cambridge, Mass. Courts have struck down bans on panhandling as unconstitutional infringements on free speech, but some cities are rewriting their laws to try to get around the rulings. (Sophie Park/Boston University via AP)

In this May 5, 2020 photo provided by Boston University via the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, as a Cambridge, Mass., police officer watches from his car, a homeless man feeds the pigeons in Harvard Square amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Sophie Park/Boston University via AP)

This 2011 photo released by the University of Maryland via the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, shows Kenneth Shultz, who has spent one of every three days in jail, often for sleeping in public, since he became homeless in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. (Ryan Little/University of Maryland via AP)