Well, it's believed to be cheaper to house the homeless than to leave them on the streets. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/housing-first-homeless-char

Well, it's believed to be cheaper to house the homeless than to leave them on the streets. [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/housing-first-homeless-charlotte_n_5022628.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/25/housing-first-homel... ] And there's plenty of housing, just not really in places that are convenient to jobs. If you didn't need a job, that becomes less of a problem. So giving people enough money for a secure housing and food situation--somewhere, anywhere--strictly decreases suffering.