it is not sensible to provide homes to everyone, the silent homeless, the ones you don't see, are the ones that are more easily helped. just identifying those w

it is not sensible to provide homes to everyone, the silent homeless, the ones you don't see, are the ones that are more easily helped. just identifying those with small children would go a long way it is the homeless with mental issues that you do see that we cannot just "give them a home" because it won't help them and you likely cannot even get them to stay in one anyway. States are stuck behind the issue of having to prove someone is a danger to themselves or others just to confine someone and it may be required to do so to treat, see O'Connor vs Donaldson for most of it . yet you will find organizations tripping over themselves to block this on case by case basis which makes the cost untenable to nearly everyone meaning in the end they don't get help. So it is up to Congress to define how it is determined that someone is a danger to themselves or other so it can withstand a court test and even then you are bound to have suit after suit using cherry picked cases. There is too much money to be made in the legal profession to let mental health cases be treated.