So... "Eradicating poverty" may be a little more opaque than one might think, and context matters a lot. If you live an isolated peasant existence, is poverty

So... "Eradicating poverty" may be a little more opaque than one might think, and context matters a lot. If you live an isolated peasant existence, is poverty nonexistent or is it universal? Is a person living in a shared room tenement "living like a prince" because elements of his material existence are similar to medieval castle life... or does the prince or pauper question have a social/cultural/class element to it Homelessness is less opaque. If you narrow the discussion to this, than there are possible answer. IMO yes, there are plenty of examples/evidence of homelessness being more and less prevalent. You can find both in poor, rich, urban or rural environments. Homelessness is probably never literally eradicated, but 0.1X is achievable, and you can find such 10X discrepancies between different cities, countries, decades and whatever else you might accept as existence proof . I don't think it's possible to "cost seriously" though, at least not fully. These aren't usually the kind of policies that are only or even mostly about direct funding. They also take time, decades, to develop.