[sigstoat]

surely there have got to be some places which have a better ratio of housing price to job prospects than seattle.

[ceejayoz]

Sure, and you send them there, and then that place sends them somewhere else, and so on and so forth.

Either they wind up back where they started because East Nowhere, North Dakota wants them gone too, or you wind up with concentrations of homeless people in an area with minimal tax base and horrific conditions as a result.