We have to cough up the money and put as many homeless people in housing as possible. Shelters aren't a long term fix. We need more mental health and drug abuse counseling. People need some kind of viable minimum income. On the streets people receive inadequate medical care whic cost us more in the long term. They resort to petty crime to survive, burdening our police departments, filling our jails, alienating them from civil society and creating police records which make them unable to find work down the road. Instead our mayor hoots that he's delivered water and sanitation services to the homeless camps, which does nothing but entrench the problem. People need jobs that pay enough to make the rent and they need health care that doesn't bankrupt them. We need to get rid of predatory financial scams that prey on the poorest members of society. Who knows what will happen, my guess is that it will continue to get worse seeing how disorganized and inept local government is.