"It’s time to come clean. The unrealistic narrative that Utah has ended homelessness by giving out homes is not helping."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/think-utah-solved-homeles_b_9...

IIRC that actually hasn't worked too well for Utah in recent years.

Tragedy of the commons is a major factor here. Any city that looks 'homeless friendly' will get people shipped to it from other cities, sometimes as part of explicit 'bus ticket' programs.

Really solving this will take work at the national level. There's more than enough wealth around to fund it, given how much goes into the pockets of opioid manufacturers alone.

Homeless people are also fairly mobile, it doesn’t take that much to come up with a $50 bus ticket even if they don’t bother hopping freight cars anymore. Hell, many can even scrounge up enough for one way tickets to Hawaii (...and Hawaii will often take care of the ticket back).