[boucher]

Conflating homelessness with mental issues is as much a lack of real engagement on the issue as your critique of the OP.

Homelessness is primarily a function of housing costs, so I'd suggest the land value tax is a lot more relevant than you think.

[stale2002]

If it really is mostly housing costs, do you understand how easy of a problem that is to solve?

Just buy all the homeless people bus tickets to somewhere cheap in the middle of nowhere and pay the cheap rent for them there.

Problem solved. And easily solvable using the existing over inflated costs we pay now.

We, of course, don't do that, because it isn't going to solve the problem.

[boucher]

Or maybe it's because forcibly moving people to the middle of nowhere isn't something most people would consider acceptable.

[stale2002]

Who said anything about forcible?

People could be paid to move or otherwise offered lots of benefits and best quality of life opportunities to do so. And paying people to move would be much cheaper than the amount of money we spend now on the problem to overpay for stuff in expensive cities.

The actual reason why we don't do this easy solution, is because home prices arent the sole cause of homelessness.

Simply doing the voluntary, cheap, and easy solution of giving people the voluntary choice to live in a much higher quality home in a low cost of living area simply wouldn't solve the issue.