Then they should work towards that.
Enabling homelessness by giving them free stuff is the wrong thing to do.
Agreed, but we have a massive of the drug addicted and mentally ill out there now. Cities outlawed boarding houses/”flop” houses decades ago because they concentrated a problematic population.
But I think one small part of the solution to (or management of, as that is the best we can really hope for) the problem may include going back to some form of that housing option.