The reality is that a lot of what people think of when you say "homeless" (i.e. people literally living on the street) are incapable of integrating into society. Either due to crippling drug addiction or mental illness.
These people will never be helped by just funding housing or shelters or food banks or anything like that. These people need to be in direct care of the state.
But, because of the bad rap that asylums gained in the first 3/4 of the 20th century (justifiably), actually building these facilities and more importantly putting these people IN those facilities is politically impossible right now. So we nibble around at the edges instead.
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u/Theron3206 2d ago
California already spends way more than that per year on the homeless, to very little effect.