A Seattle-area city council responded to the growing homelessness crisis by "cleaning out" an encampment. A local church partnered with volunteers and opened their doors and provided food, shelter, hygiene and trash services, to take all of these people in, for the winter months. No violent incidents, arrests or deaths occurred on the property during the site’s life span.
The city responded, as all governments do, in spite and rage (with a "how dare they...we'll show them!"), as if the church's and volunteers' success in providing such compassionate, well-managed care for these people was a slap in their faces or an attempt to make them look bad. The city asked the church to get a "permit" to house these folks, and the church stated the plain fact that they needed no such permission. In retaliation for their easily bruised egos, the city started to fine the church daily and now the fine totals $100,000.
Among Jesus' teachings to His disciples in the Christian Gospels, we find : “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head...”, "By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another...If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you"
When this project was welcoming, housing and feeding, a big part of the problem (the homeless sleeping in alleys and doorways) went away. Sadly, "since the camp was closed, at least four people living outside in Burien have died from an overdose".
Crises, like homelessness, is already largely an effect of State action (inflation, zoning laws, etc). The government then steals and extorts taxpayers to "solve these problems" -- but, it ends up enriching itself, while exacerbating it. And, not satisfied with such a double crime, the government then further torments others who volunteer resources (from what's leftover after the State's tax theft) to take care of the problem!
And this is not just Seattle -- here's a similar example from Oregon.
While such inhumane criminal behavior may be said to be expected from leftist progressive governments in leftist cities, it is not limited to such societies -- small conservative town governments in middle America follow the same playbook. This article has even more poignant details.
Here's another example from Arizona and Illinois.
The scourge of government is a cancer throughout the land.
(The original source article that provoked these thoughts has a tangential focus on religious freedom, Constitutionality, etc. and is behind a paywall.)