It's so much better now that these people receive treatment on the street, you can tell they are being treated because of all the hypodermic needles they leave laying around that formerly contained medcine.
This is part of the problem. People think that homeless people are all drug users, and that’s not accidental. I bet if you ended up on the street, couldn’t get a leg up to get off the street, you might eventually turn to drugs to help forget that you’ve been abandoned by society and a government that will bail out car companies and banks but won’t establish better systems to get people up and running again.