“Unless it was funding so they could feed or house more people.”
But that is what I referred to. It doesn’t matter that the intention is to feed someone and not “profit”, it is still basically mugging someone else for the money.
Yes, many of the people are very nice and caring in intention, but unless they are boning up the $$ themselves, many are still trying to get $$ from the gov (by and large).
So, as a group even in independent kitchens which otherwise look for gov hand-outs, they would rather the vagrants come to them to justify those hand-outs from taxpayers.
Just like SpecEd in school. Get more kids designated “special” so more funds come in. (Yes, it’s true - ask my mom, who loved her job but had no illusions about what public schools were doing.)
Many are funded by charity. Some are funded with tax dollars. Largely those are less expensive then the alternative of scraping the dead bodies up, dealing with the crimes, or putting them in jail.