Fund an infinite supply of government make-work jobs with included housing, legal drugs, and okay pay.
Model the make-work towns off of coal towns of old. On cheap land so housing is cheap.
Have a minimum age of 30 to prevent kids/teens/young adults from moving to these towns and being employed at these subsidized (read: un-profitable for the government) jobs.
I'm sure that more than 10% of the homeless are under 30. Some random stats I looked up on google - 650k recorded homeless in a study in 2014, 130k were children, and another study says the mode age ranges from 21-23.
It isn't just people who fall through the cracks when they lose their jobs, its also those who never could get a start to begin with.
Make the minimum age 25 then. A minimum age may not even be necessary, but we should have some incentive to not be in these make-work towns. But we don't want the incentive too high that the homeless don't want to go to them.
The promise of these towns for the homeless should be legal drugs, guaranteed income, and something to do.
If an infinite supply of jobs deals with only 90% of the problem, does this imply that any finite supply deals with 0% of the problem?
Also, if you want make work jobs modeled on coal towns on cheap land, maybe we could have them in coal country, digging not-coal out of ground. Then we could deal with the death of coal mining as well as 90% of homelessness, using that infinite supply of not-jobs.
Fund an infinite supply of government make-work jobs with included housing, legal drugs, and okay pay.
Model the make-work towns off of coal towns of old. On cheap land so housing is cheap.
Have a minimum age of 30 to prevent kids/teens/young adults from moving to these towns and being employed at these subsidized (read: un-profitable for the government) jobs.