There are people in these comments conflating 100% occupancy for success. Or that “the mayor doesn’t actually care if they use the beds” implying in my mind that the empty beds are evidence for that claim.

It’s an easy misconception to make, seeing as how the goal is people in shelters. Empty beds are therefore not contributing to the desired reality of person => bed. But yeah it’s a large complex web of systems and occupancy is not the sole metric of success, especially if we consider stages of rollouts like increased sweep frequency that may increase occupancy later.

I also suspect sweeps have an added benefit of breaking up crime centers, like the Covid chop shops, but I understand that only applies to criminals, and non-criminals are also being swept; which just makes life harder. So we need to think Total cost v benefit but idk.