Didn’t they move a bunch of the folks who had been camping in front of the state house to the armory as a winter shelter several weeks ago? Wouldn’t that explain part of it?

Many shelters have weird rules and curfews— like they don’t want folks hanging around inside the building during the day if the weather isn’t cold, but they have to be in a shelter by a certain time if they want to sleep there. So you have a bunch of unhoused folks who get tied to an area they can’t stray too far from, or they’ll lose their chance at a secure location to sleep at night.