That is a question many ask. The idea with these programs is that it's for the chronic long term homeless. So to qualify for a free apartment to work on your s

That is a question many ask. The idea with these programs is that it's for the chronic long term homeless. So to qualify for a free apartment to work on your startup, you'd need to first spend 10 years on the streets, get diabetes or aids, and have a foot amputated. This is a big hurdle for most people looking for a free apartment. There's many different categories of homeless. One of the most difficult to resolve is the long term chronic ones. Pretty much nothing tried has worked. However, pilot programs offering apartments have worked, at least it has reduced the cost of handling them and increased their quality of life. We are talking a small number of people, perhaps a few dozen in a big city like Chicago or New York or London. These are the guys that the police and social workers and hospitals all know by name because they are dealing with them every year for more than 10 years. Given these constraints, do you agree that there is not a risk with moral hazard as implemented? Of course there is the risk that such a program would be expanded to the point where it would become either a moral hazard, or become a substitute for welfare programs that deal with long term structural issues of unemployment caused by globalization and other factors. As a theoretical outcome in the future that would require many hypotheticals to happen first. It would be something of a slippery slope to consider it as a criticism of a program that seems to work to help long term chronic homeless get off the street while costing society less.