Wait why are so many people shitting on this idea. This seems to me to be exactly what people are always comparing about, "big companies only care about the bottom line they don't care at all about suffering." Right here there is a private company trying to help ease the homeless problem and everyone is just shitting on them for not doing the way they think they should or are getting angry at them for making a profit on it.
If we constantly dump on every person and company who makes any attempt to help address a social problem simply because it doesn't solve the whole problem or because they don't do it in the way we want or think is effecient, people are going to stop trying to do anything.
Sure maybe this program didn't solve homelessness in Phoenix and maybe it didn't help significantly reduce the percentage of people that are homeless but you know whose life it did significantly help? Steve and every other person who got a home, so sure maybe this didn't change homelessness in America radically but it did radically change homelessness for those people.
If we constantly dump on every person and company who makes any attempt to help address a social problem simply because it doesn't solve the whole problem or because they don't do it in the way we want or think is effecient, people are going to stop trying to do anything.
Sure maybe this program didn't solve homelessness in Phoenix and maybe it didn't help significantly reduce the percentage of people that are homeless but you know whose life it did significantly help? Steve and every other person who got a home, so sure maybe this didn't change homelessness in America radically but it did radically change homelessness for those people.