I'm not so sure what to think of this. First of all, they state that most of these people have serious mental and drug issues, so how are you going to get them "back into society?" Mental people need healthcare and public mental care is virtually nonexistent. That is the first problem. What little there is, sucks. That is the next problem. The third problem is that this country is rushing pell mell towards eliminating the very jobs these kind of people might actually do, replacing them with machines.
The forth problem is that probably the reason why most of these people are on drugs and out on the street is /because/ of the government.
- The government shipped all job labor out of the country to foreign lands, so there is no work for them.
- The government imports millions of illegals to do menial labor.
- There simply is no work nor opportunity for most of these people to meet the high cost of living in these cities so they end up on the street taking drugs.
As usual, it sounds like the government is again operating bass ackwards--- looking at the symptom instead of the cause, to get these people off the street and into drug programs; wonder what that will cost us before it all fails, a few billion? Give these people opportunity, create jobs for them and you won't need to get them off the streets or off drugs.