The Pine Street Inn addresses these situations by threatening homeless people who sleep under this highway with punishments, such as being barred from staying at the shelter for a year. The Pine Street Inn says this procedure is part of its "Good Neighbor Policy," but it has nothing to do with anything other than that it makes the Pine Street Inn look bad when homeless people sleep under the highway that's right across the street.
Either this homeless person would rather sleep under the highway because he or she hates being in the shelter or he or she was already barred from the shelter for a night, a month or a year. Staff and supervisors threatening or issuing these "Suspensions of Services" coercively is an ongoing problem.
