Peter:  I think you're right that many efforts to "address" such issues are, in fact, efforts to move them elsewhere.  Were there no travelers and no other homeless individuals in downtown Eugene, they would be somewhere else and "someone else's" issue.  We badly need to address the many presenting issues leading to homelessness and provide assistance and suppport to help individuals "work their way" out of homelessness.  When you're addressing mental illness, chronic alcoholism and drug abuse, vets' issues with PTSD, women and children fleeing domestic abuse, sudden unemployment and chronic under-employment, physical and intellectual disabilities and who knows what other issues, it's a difficult and expensive challenge.  

Those tables/benches might be nice, but they really don't address the assistance needed by our homeless population.  Regards to you, sir   Gary Crum