<div>An excellent intermediate step is to have large numbers of adequately funded longterm shelters designed like army barracks, with bunkbeds and lockers. And a further stage would be huge apartment "halfway house" complexes, where everyone is caseworker managed in a program that requires them to at least look for work, when possible. If they obey the rules and are not a major problem, they can stay, but if they become a headache, they are then kicked out. This would be for people who are relatively mentally healthy & drug free, and not the serious mental health cases that might need to be institutionalized.</div>
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<div>What enrages me is that the United States is extremely wealthy, and yet our homeless shelters and temporary housing infrastructure is a joke due to inadequate funding. There are many people each night who are turned away when they desperately need a bed in a warm room. I think relatively inexpensive longterm solutions are possible, but the public interest is just not currently there.</div>
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