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I imagine curing homelessness is much more complicated than just giving homeless people somewhere to go. Homeless shelters are awful places that homeless people avoid using, because they're likely to get robbed or beaten up by each other. There's probably a heck of a lot more that would need to go into these places to truly get them to stay and ensure the conditions wouldn't be horrendous.

Then there's the problem that once there's free housing available, well, there's going to be a sudden influx of new people looking to use it. You'd have the existing homeless, the future homeless, and then just people who see nice free housing and want in. You'd probably need way more capacity than you alotted, and then you're left with more homelesssness. And you'd have a backlash of people angry that they're paying for other people's free housing when they themselves can barely afford it. And what that'd do the value of real estate, the cost of renting, etc, etc, would be a lot of factors to consider.