[mjevans]

Go one better. Provide them all of those things, as well as /a/ job (not necessarily one they're trained in) as well as time for and inclusion at, training for jobs that are open.

I imagine that maintenance of public infrastructure is a thing which won't go away any time soon.

If you define the above as a poverty line (and the re-education time slot is also usable for personal crafts/recreation/etc) then you've also very nicely defined a minimum wage which must be beaten. Providing the apartments at a monetary level in areas also defines a value level for housing in a given area, which is one way of eliminating price gouging (or at least giving added value when it is done).

[SomeCallMeTim]

Not a bad thought, though some of that 10% of the homeless who are chronically homeless probably should be allowed to just fail to go to their job with no consequences.

Ideally they'd have social services and/or psychiatric care, and some of them, after sufficient care might then be able to work. But some are just going to be chronically unemployable.