Many homeless choose that life because with free food and housing, they are better able to afford their drug habit.
Also, by concentrating the homeless, it is far easier and safer for drug dealers to access their better paying customers.
Change that economics and you would dramatically change homelessness.
Real simple alternative: anyone getting “crazy money” has to drug test and live in a supervised shelter.
Los Angeles is admitting they have 50,000 homeless on the streets.
IF they are admitting to that number, I will bet an ice cream bar that the real number is much closer to 150,000.