Give them places to live and teach them to grow food which will help pay for the whole thing. It may not work for all of them but maybe it would help 35% or so of them? That’s a shitload more than we seem able to help now.
UBI and public housing is more effective to prevent homelessness. Having said that, I’d love to see more and more cooperative based communities.
Give them places to live and teach them to grow food which will help pay for the whole thing.
The mentality that social programs are expected to justify their existence financially before their effectiveness can even be considered is one of the biggest reasons problems like homelessness are intractable.
You mean like the residential mental hospital system in the US used to do before Regan destroyed it?
It had problems, like any institution, but overall it was providing EXACTLY what you are suggesting.
Crazy how “socialism” is often the solution for a better society… As if those two words shared some common root