One really serious problem with this particular topic of discussion is that people keep conflating "homeless" and "poor". Homeless people may be almost univers

One really serious problem with this particular topic of discussion is that people keep conflating "homeless" and "poor". Homeless people may be almost universally poor, but most of the poor are not homeless. I will go further and venture that most of the homeless are not homeless because they are poor but rather because they are either suffering from either serious mental disorders or substance abuse or both. As a consequence, the ways you solve the "poor" problem and the ways you solve the "homeless" problem are different. So it really makes sense to figure out which particular problem you are talking about.