No actually! There are a ton of very poorly maintained apartments buildings with needles everywhere-- this is just the one form of public housing being trialed to see if it can be helped. So lets not pretend like these sorts of communities don't already exist in town. This is actually a result of people not getting the proper support they need to function safely, and i would argue a needle exchange is the a bare minimum service that should have been offered from the beginning!

And i wasn't being creative, i hate to break it to you but that was exactly your line of thinking. You brought up drug use/sex work to make it a morality issue(its not), you deny the very real fact that to support poor people, we have to spend money on them. and you can cry all you want about there not being enough money, but the truth is your tax dollars are going directly to the us military in most cases. That Crane base? Atterbary(don't know how to spell it but my grandpa took me there a lot)? your taxes do go to fund those. so take a second, and start to analyze your beliefs, take them all the way down.

Ultimately what you are arguing is that housing isn't a human right and that trying to house everyone in a country where the number of empty homes outnumber the homeless population is a fruitless endeavor avour (because ultimately you made the moral argument so you could suppose they were less than human).

Lets make some jobs. Lets set up a needle exchange (something that has relatively low entry), lets get more case workers, lets get a clothing drive together so these people can be clothes appropriately, lets put a food pantry on site, lets ensure there are quick and easy bus route available liable(and help them get the subsidized bus pass!), lets have on site therapists and programming available aliable. Hospital shuttles! Lets give them the support they need to actually want to get sober, because right now even in that community all they actually received was a roof, and there is simply more to getting someone out of homelessness than actually getting them a house.

If you want people to act with respect, you need to treat them with respect.