> That's the truly amazing thing: the net budget effect on federal and state funded interventions was probably better, and they STILL unwound the programmes. >

> That's the truly amazing thing: the net budget effect on federal and state funded interventions was probably better, and they STILL unwound the programmes. > Collective failure of imagination. > Homelessness exists because we let it. You're listening to the words and not understanding the actual motivation. Budgets are a convenient objection but not actually important. Like you observe there are people who would gladly spend more money to make the problem worse. What you unfortunately need to realize is that there are far too many people who need to know that there are others suffering "because they deserve it". You will never understand the debate around homelessness[0] as long as you assume everyone agrees it should be solved or that people just haven't discovered the right way to allocate resources. [0]: You can swap out homelessness with a few other political hotbutton issues as well. I'll leave those to your imagination.