#1 will almost certainly get you cancelled, but you can't even get #2 as mayor. The best you could hope for is to pull a Giuliani. Not all homeless need rehabi

#1 will almost certainly get you cancelled, but you can't even get #2 as mayor. The best you could hope for is to pull a Giuliani. Not all homeless need rehabilitation, not all homeless want housing. When they do, not all trust the government enough to make their lives better through these efforts. (I say this through the experience of friends who are social workers specializing in dealing with homelessness) If you really wanted to get rid of homelessness, you need: 1/ A massively expanded budget for running shelters, temporary and long term housing 2/ Compulsory institutionalization to get people who are addicted or mentally ill off of the wrong drugs and onto the right ones (along with the requisite therapy) as appropriate 3/ Eliminate all of the feel-good laws, policy changes and cash handouts that allow camping in public spaces which enable long-term homelessness. An actual goal of no vagrancy means pushing people into steps 1 and 2. Pitching a tent on a sidewalk or in a public park either gets you a fine or, if you can't pay, put into the system. 4/ A massive police presence in the short term to deal with the gangs and cartels - local and foreign - who have been making a killing running hard drugs into and through legal grey zones such as (though certainly not limited to) homeless encampments. Simple legalization of drugs won't be sufficient to stop this, though it may help. Unfortunately, that does also run counter to #1.