There's a lot to be learned from this situation too. The city has taken the X-treme step of forcing the NGOs that facilitate this crap to register and file paperwork to do things like handing out fresh tents and sleeping bags.
Scrub through the first 5 minutes of this for an accurate visualization of the problem, especially the part where the fat lady drinking at 10 in the morning is complaining about the police citing her for scattered rubbish.
It's not like the schizo who self-immolated did it out of opposition to some random war on some different continent. He did it out of opposition to The Simpsons, an ongoing assault of punitive animated comedy.