Provide Housing

Local government's response has been to prioritize permanent housing, which, obviously takes a long time to accomplish with few short term alternatives. In addition, getting builders to build affordable housing is a losing battle. It just doesn't pencil out. There are requirements and incentives to include affordable units in new projects, but frankly the people on the streets will never qualify or afford even those units, and the number required per project is quite limited. One such houseless person did get in an apartment building and brought in all his friends and trashed the place. They are where they are largely because their behavior is not conducive to being housed. They have burned all their bridges with people who were sympathetic to their particular plight. Many freely admit that they do not want to be housed, they want to just do whatever they want when and wherever they want and F*** everybody else.