Just food and housing, without a comprehensive plan and a discernible end game...is doomed to failure. If they are getting all the employers in the area together...granting tax breaks for hiring former homeless...full on outreach and mentor-ship--retraining--and the time required to make it all stick--maybe.
But at best..just a percentage will succeed----no guarantee that the numbers coming to take advantage won't exceed the number of people who make it a success.
The hard truth is that drugs and mental illness plague the homeless population...and they are either going to be part of the landscape forever...or ________________?