And those policies, internationally, alienate the disenfranchized and lead them to a life of crime and likely an early grave. Asia has a bit of an escape hatch

And those policies, internationally, alienate the disenfranchized and lead them to a life of crime and likely an early grave. Asia has a bit of an escape hatch in how essential and inescapable family is - its rare you have someone so thoroughly hopeless there because its the obligation of their blood relatives to do something about them before they are publicly homeless and drug addled. So you don't see people in this state as often, but when they are, it is the worst place to be homeless and helpless. Its casting a wide net of "Asian" but Japan (or at least greater Tokyo) has a housing first imitative of their own that does work resoundingly well for their very infrequent homelessness cases. Its legitimately hard to perfectly "fall through the cracks" there between familial obligation and state support programs.