Homeless-care services like this are the equivalent of dealing with tech debt. Every homeless person incurs gigantic recurring costs, and to make them no longer

Homeless-care services like this are the equivalent of dealing with tech debt. Every homeless person incurs gigantic recurring costs, and to make them no longer homeless requires even larger temporary costs. All of this could have been avoided by solving for the tech debt that leads to homelessness, but there's apparently no real appetite for investing resources into that. So now we have to pay down our tech debt. As you can see from the reaction to programs like this, we're more likely to simply sink escalating maintenance costs into the existing system instead.