At one point I thought about founding a charity for the homeless - B&B4B.
Booze and Butts for Bums. Give them what they want, instead of what you think they need.
Sounds like someone in California has stolen my idea and taken it to the next level.
If they try to steal my B&B4B name and trademark it however, I’ll use this post to contest it.
I can imagine a “Pleasure Island” situation like in Pinocchio. Just set up an enclosed facility (you don’t have to call it a prison) and provide drugs and alcohol and porn and video games to people. It’s nothing but fun and you get a roof over your head and a cafeteria provides food.
The catch would be that the door swings one way. You enter by volunteering, and saying “I want to be here.” If so, then you can never leave. And (importantly) at some randomly chosen time, your drugs or your alcohol will contain an overdose, and then you’re dead. But your last few months will be the best months you can imagine.
I believe a very large percentage of the “down and out” would volunteer to go to Pleasure Island. Problem solved.