This doesn’t work always, or even most of the time. There are populations of homeless people that refuse services and are homeless on purpose (for example to ab

This doesn’t work always, or even most of the time. There are populations of homeless people that refuse services and are homeless on purpose (for example to abuse drugs freely). I recall reading about situations like homeless people destroying shelter offered to them - for example stripping wiring or selling appliances to get cash to fuel addictions. There are some people that need mental health services and can’t survive even if offered shelter. That said, I do feel it is cheaper to subsidize housing directly than to fund the grift heavy homeless industrial complex that we find in cities like SF or Portland or Seattle, where lots of money is spent with no results.