the current problem isn’t supply. In the US we have 6 houses for every homeless person. We have plenty of housing stock.
This ignores a lot of factors, like location. Huge swaths of Detroit, for example, are basically ghost towns. Not many people want to live there because of this, the houses are in poor condition from neglect, and it has one of the worst crime rates in the US.
Not to mention, if you take a homeless person and stick them in a house, that doesn’t fix any issues that might have caused them to become homeless in the first place, like mental health issues or drug addiction. And you’ve probably uprooted them from whatever support system they had.
This ignores a lot of factors, like location. Huge swaths of Detroit, for example, are basically ghost towns. Not many people want to live there because of this, the houses are in poor condition from neglect, and it has one of the worst crime rates in the US.
Not to mention, if you take a homeless person and stick them in a house, that doesn’t fix any issues that might have caused them to become homeless in the first place, like mental health issues or drug addiction. And you’ve probably uprooted them from whatever support system they had.