The problem is the more services you provide for the homeless, the more homeless you get flocking to your city. Do you think all these people want to work? There's a certain reason why they've fallen or are unable to function in normal society, it's not because there are no jobs in the city? You see those Hispanic guys waiting out in front of Home Depot... those people want to work. You see those Asian people collecting cans, they don't have a real job but they're doing something to make money. You see guys on the street corner with signs begging, they want a handout, not work. In order to function in normal society you have to work and contribute to it. You can give them a roof, they're still not going to work. Giving them housing won't fix shit, many of them won't work period because why work 8+ hours a day and deal with so many rules when sit on the street corner for a couple hours and get food/drug money for the rest of the day. They're people that for whatever reason can't function in normal society. In the 1800's these people would have died off and been forgotten but in the 2000's we have so many free services and people giving away money, that they can continue to live this way.