Comment by boredumb

Anyone who thinks funding rehab centers and getting homeless drug addicts into free apartment units are people who have never been around homeless drug addicts. There may be some wonderful examples of this working but 99.8% of the people you will encounter on your commute are not about to participate in rehab, and if you ask them they will give you a history of apartments and homes they've been asked to leave due to destroying them. Even if you used the same enforcement to take other peoples money in taxes for funding in order to force them into homes and rehab centers you will find that the overlap (at least in the US) with severe mental illnesses is huge AND you cannot legally force these people into places to address it. The reality of drugs and homelessness in America is so bad that listening to people talk about government ran programs and some funding figures are naive or disingenuous - all of the state programs are closer to end of life hospice work than a solution.