Nothing wrong with the poor wanting shelter. In different towns large and small I have seen what I consider different solutions that did work.
Salvation Army has shelter and meals. But I think they are restricted by size of shelter as to how many can stay over night. And many places do provide a breakfast but you need to then leave the shelter for the day.
A small town I lived in ran a shelter and it was for the night. Not sure if they provided meals. In Colorado the local natives, Utes and Navajos were often the guests.
I San Francisco they would sleep in the stores entrance areas to avoid the rains and fogs of the area. I know they tried to break that up more than once but it was hard to get them to go and not return as much of the SF area, Tiburon etc, and the east side of the bay in Oakland and many other locations.
This is getting to be an old way of life for many and for many years now. Not sure how any government is ever going to end this way of life. While living in Colorado we found that many of these folks were just seasonal. When it got cold they would drift away and I suppose they went south or south west where it was warmer.
One of the strangest I met was a vet that had land in Wyoming but worked in the Boulder CO area. He had a small Japanese pickup and that was his home while working in Boulder. He worked two jobs at that time, one was a product assembler in an electronics plant and the other was as a janitor in a different location. His goal was to someday have his Wyoming land paid and then go there and raise animals and whatever farming could be done in that part of the US. He was working and not doing drugs so maybe he should not be considered to be homeless but most of his time he was living out of his truck.
Salvation Army has shelter and meals. But I think they are restricted by size of shelter as to how many can stay over night. And many places do provide a breakfast but you need to then leave the shelter for the day.
A small town I lived in ran a shelter and it was for the night. Not sure if they provided meals. In Colorado the local natives, Utes and Navajos were often the guests.
I San Francisco they would sleep in the stores entrance areas to avoid the rains and fogs of the area. I know they tried to break that up more than once but it was hard to get them to go and not return as much of the SF area, Tiburon etc, and the east side of the bay in Oakland and many other locations.
This is getting to be an old way of life for many and for many years now. Not sure how any government is ever going to end this way of life. While living in Colorado we found that many of these folks were just seasonal. When it got cold they would drift away and I suppose they went south or south west where it was warmer.
One of the strangest I met was a vet that had land in Wyoming but worked in the Boulder CO area. He had a small Japanese pickup and that was his home while working in Boulder. He worked two jobs at that time, one was a product assembler in an electronics plant and the other was as a janitor in a different location. His goal was to someday have his Wyoming land paid and then go there and raise animals and whatever farming could be done in that part of the US. He was working and not doing drugs so maybe he should not be considered to be homeless but most of his time he was living out of his truck.