The first option is not actually more expensive than the cost of how we handle it now. E.g. we could just give homeless people housing for less than the cost we

The first option is not actually more expensive than the cost of how we handle it now. E.g. we could just give homeless people housing for less than the cost we already spend on homeless services. The problem is the "they don't deserve things for free" mindset. It's even here in this thread too, I had to pay for education, why should prisoners get it? This vindictive thinking is all over HN, just a couple days ago a top comment was wondering why we allow them to "infest" cities like they're some sort of disease rather than other people. If you ran on a dog whistled "kill the homeless" platform, you'd get a lot of voter support.