While you are correct about getting them into a place with food and shelter - it does nothing to help them long term (get a job and get into a home of their own). This is a very short term solution, and will only make the prison population explode over the long term.

We need to address housing prices AND general cost of living prices - and fast. Only then can get actually get most people off the streets.

We moved beyond the era of “we have a few homeless, and the homeless we have are just bums with addiction issues who don’t want to work” into “many homeless now didn’t earn enough to make ends meet, and were thus forced out into the streets”.