Florida's new homeless law bans people experiencing homelessness from sleeping on public land and mandates cities and municipalities to create encampments.

Under the law, municipalities are required to create designated spaces for camping and sleeping if homeless shelters are full.

The lines form in the predawn darkness, clumps of people arriving from tents, bus shelters and patches of cardboard unfurled in spots across the Tampa Bay region. They come on foot, on bicycles, in wheelchairs.