That works for me.
More than half of the nation's 3.5 million homeless are single people, mostly men like Mr. Thornton [mentally ill and an alcoholic].
No amount of "affordable housing" can help if the mentally ill aren't treated and the addicts don't get clean.
But more and more working poor families are ending up on the streets as well, unable to keep up with rising rents, or broke from paying huge medical expenses because they lack health insurance.
As for the "working poor", how about families sharing a house with a roommate[s]? It may not be ideal, but it beats being on the streets or having me subsidize you.
For those with large medical bills, declare bankruptcy and start over.
Ending homelessness will be a large and difficult undertaking,
It'll be an impossibility as long as the government's involved in it.
While not exactly The Ritz (or "section 8"), it fulfilled a need.