I think major cities should provide Japanese style capsule hotels to serve the needs of the homeless.
The plan would be to have the homeless run the hotels to pay for their stay until they find a stable employer.
The plan would be to have the homeless run the hotels to pay for their stay until they find a stable employer.
People need actual homes. Even if it's a modest efficiency apartment, we all need a place we can call our own - where we can keep our stuff, manage it how we choose, be alone or with only the people we chose, feel safe, and be assured that in the future all of that will still be true.
There's plenty of housing around - it's one of the big things our economy produces. It's not that hard or expensive to just provide homeless people with the same housing everyone else has. There's no reason to come up with elaborate or convoluted plans for "how to handle the homeless problem" when the answer is facepalm straightforward.