We used to have housing of last resort, places like SROs that were unpleasant but cheap (and to be fair, they were often firetraps). But then we decided it was

We used to have housing of last resort, places like SROs that were unpleasant but cheap (and to be fair, they were often firetraps). But then we decided it was inhumane so we banned or greatly restricted them, and surprise, the people that would have been in an SRO now live in cars or tents, definitely not an improvement.