It's difficult to convince people to care about the homelessness problem. Particularly if they have only ever had unpleasant interactions with the homeless. You

It's difficult to convince people to care about the homelessness problem. Particularly if they have only ever had unpleasant interactions with the homeless. You can't easily ignore your instinct of pattern recognition. Increase in spending on jobs for homeless does nothing for those that are mentally ill. Conversely increase in spending on mental health programs does nothing for those that were simply down on their luck. Given a finite amount of money, there doesn't seem to be a simple solution. And you'll have to forgive anyone that would rather just not spend anymore as the relationship between expenditure and number of homeless is not inversely correlated, quite the opposite unfortunately.