I don’t think this is about trying to get money out of the homeless, I think it’s the adjacent power to move them on. In other words, homeless people living in urban centres can be bused out to brownbelt or industrial estates so they don’t clutter up ‘nice’ town centres with their unpleasant presence. This is why it will appeal to their voter base. They won’t have to see rough sleepers anymore. There will be no more homeless people camped outside Waitrose.