If someone really wanted to manage the ‘problem’ correctly....you would come upon the homeless crowd and assess their potential to return to work. You would spend the amount necessary on the work-crowd. The remainder...probably 80-percent...you would ship off to the cheapest location possible (outside of city limits). In this case, I’d ship them off a hundred miles east to Moses Lake, and dump them onto something that I’d call a homeless reservation (a two-star campground), and mandate this is their ‘tribal land’ and they need to stay there.
Keeping them in Seattle means you are overpaying by 300-percent the amount you need for basic living.