More than two dozen police officers have cleared homeless protesters from their camp at Hobart's Parliament lawns, with two arrested for refusing to move on.

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Occupy Tasmania, a group of homeless Tasmanians, set up 15 tents outside Parliament on Tuesday in protest at the State Government's response to Hobart's housing crisis.

About 20 uniformed police officers moved in to clear about 15 people just after 7:00am.

Protester Stitch, who said he had been homeless for eight years, said some of the group were ordered not to return to the Parliament House grounds.

He said he would return to protest, but not go on the lawns.

"The issue isn't going to go away ... just because they've made us go away," he said.

"Some of the people they tried to house to make them go away, good on them, they've got houses now, but it still hasn't changed the issue.

"Their policies won't change, the Liberal policies you'll never change."

A homeless protester is woken by police during an eviction from a camp at Hobart's Parliament lawns. ( ABC News: Rhiannon Shine )

Tasmania's Legislative Council president said yesterday that police would be asked to evict the group this morning if they had not left the site by then.

Sorry, this video has expired New Speaker Sue Hickey tells campers to move on from outside Parliament

On Wednesday, the new Speaker of the Upper House, Sue Hickey, told protesters they should leave — an instruction that was met with derision by the group.

In a statement, police said two people were arrested after they "failed to comply with a direction to leave by the Controller of Parliament House".

"A small number of protesters complied with the direction that was issued at 7am in the presence of police and they were given time to pack up their belongings and leave," the statement read.

"Police had been monitoring protest activity in relation to members identifying as 'Occupy Tasmania' who were camped on Parliament Lawns since Tuesday.

"Discussions with the group, and liaison with Parliament House, continued throughout that time.

"The two arrested people, aged 36 and 50, were taken to Hobart Police Station where they were charged with trespass and bailed to appear at the Hobart Magistrates Court at a later date."

Tents and personal belongings were packed up by members of the group, with assistance from officers, police said.

Police said Housing Connect had "assisted with a presence at Parliament Lawns in order to provide accommodation advice and options for persons that have been relocated".

A woman is taken away from the Parliament lawns homelessness protest. ( ABC News: Rhiannon Shine )

Upper House president Jim Wilkinson yesterday told ABC Hobart the protesters only had a permit for one day.

"They'll be told again in no uncertain terms tomorrow that they have got to leave, and then what happens is directions given by myself and the Speaker and then the police are requested to evict them and I would hope that that is what will happen," he said at the time.

The group are calling for housing solutions, as the rental crisis in Hobart and outer suburbs worsens due to increased demand pushing up prices.

Homeless people were evicted from a site in Glenorchy, in Hobart's north on April 21, with a number of people taken to Hobart's showgrounds reserve.