How about we boost the system so that the homeless can easily and willingly get into the system rather than starving them until they are forced to?“If you give cash out on the street, generally about 93 percent of it goes to alcohol, drugs and prostitution. And if you give food on the street, you end up in a very convoluted way, but still an important way, you end up preventing people from going into 24/7 programming.
Seriously? That's pretty simple. Remove the religious genuflection requirement. Almost all of these programs require the recipient of the services to be ministered to by a Christian religious leader of some sort. Bible readings in the room where the food is served. Religious "counseling". Etc. The homeless I have worked with are pretty much unanimous: get the religion out of it, and I'll come in. But I can't stand being preached to. (Second issue? Safety. These places are not full of the most savory characters, and theft/violence is commonplace.)