[hn_throwaway_99]

I think part of the problem, though, is that any individual city (or even state) that attempts to solve this problem by giving more resources is doomed to fail, because it ends up attracting more homeless people and making the problem worse.

This is not hypothetical. In Texas there was an exposé done recently about how churches in a bunch of small rural towns were buying 1-way bus tickets to Austin for their homeless people, as Austin has generally better services for the public (and just passed, extremely unwisely in my opinion, a city ordinance making it legal to camp in any public place as long as you aren't fully obstructing a sidewalk.)

[Nasrudith]

The obvious solution is to do it at a federal level but there doesn't seem to be much will for it even in heavily urban states - let alone the Senate.