"Helping the Homeless" is big business in the range of billions of dollars per year. It is a humanitarian cash cow with built in subscription services. The feds, states, churches, private parties all push money into "helping." It's why they will hand out free needles, biden crack kits, build faculties for the druggies to use in and buy loads of tents, tarps ect., but affordable housing and jobs that pay a living wage are somehow too difficult to supply. Jobs usually require an address and a phone just to apply, not to mention references are pretty helpful as well. Who in their right mind would even want to hire someone with a drug addiction and take the risk of theft, injury or liability if they get hurt at work? Homelessness is financially incentivized for the folks making 6 figure salaries to "combat it," therefore it won't go away until it is financially more profitable to remove these folks from the streets and sober them up for a few months.