Maybe we need “Orphanages for Adults”, where adults can be put up in college dorm sized rooms and they can work simple jobs....????
But such a program should be locally operated ONLY!
I ran a homeless veteran program out of a YMCA that resembled that in several ways. We paid for their room at the Y, we had a vendor bring them two meals a day which were placed in a freezer to be microwaved later, we bought them tools, work clothes, bus passes, gas cards and such for their jobs and we counseled them on finding a job while the Y’s man counseled them on mental health.