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[haele]

61. How do other countries do it?

Most of what works is because wealthier citizens are willing to pay taxes for services and subsidies to the less wealthy to keep them from homelessness, food and mental health insecurity.
It can't fix everyone or every issue. There will always be addiction problems, emotional immaturity issues, and borderline individuals who are not capable of being subject to average responsibilities and relationships, but working on the homeless issue in a holistic social manner will significantly reduce the amount of problems associated with homelessness.

We can go from the grim statistic of several thousands of homeless in cities and counties that are being severely affected as time on the streets continues to a hundred to couple hundred more locally manageable individuals that can be helped or monitored if they can't accept help.

It's far cheaper to proactively house, educate, and provide the basics to survive to the variety of homeless families, groups, and individuals than it is to deal with the crime, environmental, health (public, physical and mental), and other social and local economic issues that occur after the fact as a large number of homeless begin to congregate in areas.

Haele