This video “Seattle is Dying” emphasizes that homelessness is 1st & foremost an addiction problem (drugs & alcohol), not a housing problem that can solved by just building affordable housing or having more free beds and free meals. And sites a program being used in Rhode Island which seems to be helping "which partners tougher law-enforcement with treatment that is focused on keeping addicts off opioids."
IN other words, if you don't recognize that the problem is really addiction, you'll never solve the housing problem, no matter how much money you throw at it.
https://hotair.com/archives/john-s-2/2019/03/18/komo-news-seattle-dying-special/
I’ve seen the show from KOMO. Well done.
Our son recently moved out of West Seattle to an area well away fom this crap.