It's important to make a distinction between the chronically homeless (who frequently have addiction issues or mental health problems) and the short-term homele

It's important to make a distinction between the chronically homeless (who frequently have addiction issues or mental health problems) and the short-term homeless when talking about these sorts of issues, IMHO. Chronic homeless make up ~15% of the national population (stat from http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/chronic_homelessness http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/chronic_homelessness which cites 2014 version of the HUD report you do, but their link is broken, in full disclosure) For those folks, what's needed is guaranteed housing with wraparound services (healthcare/counseling/meals, etc), not more income as that's not the driving force for most. The short-term homeless would also benefit from some of that but many would also be able to safely use basic income. In any case, I think it's important to make the above distinction explicitly as different people have different notions of "homelessness" and we end up talking past each other if we don't make it explicit.