> Unfortunately, giving the homeless homes doesn't work. For the economically disadvantaged, of course providing free or low cost housing is helpful and welcome

> Unfortunately, giving the homeless homes doesn't work. For the economically disadvantaged, of course providing free or low cost housing is helpful and welcome. > But for the majority, who have mental illness and/or substance abuse issues, a shelter or home often makes little difference. I'd question your stats about mental illness and substance misuse disorder, but even if we accept that most homeless people are either mentally ill, or addicted, or both: how do you expect them to engage with treatment when they're living on the street? "Homes first" is a key part of many homeless health programmes. See this example, called "housing first": https://hfe.homeless.org.uk/about-housing-first https://hfe.homeless.org.uk/about-housing-first > is restoration of residential mental care facilities that were largely torn down in the 1970s in favor of mainstreaming the mentally ill. We really really don't need to go back to the days of asylums that held people for many years for relatively mild mental ill health.