Thats kind of why homelessness exists in the first place though, and is getting worse. Providing enough housing to eliminate housing would bring rents down. Th

Thats kind of why homelessness exists in the first place though, and is getting worse. Providing enough housing to eliminate housing would bring rents down. That's bad for profits. Taking away the fear of homelessness gives low end workers more negotiating muscle. This means hence higher wages and less incentive to work as hard. Again, really bad for profits. This is why western governments feign the willingness to do something about it by half heartedly attacking the symptoms (e.g. drugs) rather than fixing the actual cause (lack of homes). It's also why the media fights so hard to misrepresent the causality between drugs and homelessness.