Well, the elected Mayor of Bristol, in Winter 2022, handed out big black plastic sacks for the homeless to sleep in. The kind of thing you'd buy at B&Q for garden rubbish. 

No joke.
Needless to say, you never saw anyone using them. The recipients had more sense.
Apparently, he (or his Labour advisors) didn't even think that giving homeless addicts big black trash bags to sleep in was "a bad look"!
(Quite apart from being ineffectual, because late night clubbers might easily have thrown their cans and takeaways into one, not realising there was a person inside)!
We voted last year to never have elected Mayors again.