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I'd rather they make 4 stories tall, 4m by 4m, modern rows of apartments rented for free, with good lighting, plenty of outlets and furnished with bedbug resistant beds. One dude per dwelling, personal shower and toilets, and a door that locks. The prison basics with a coat of paint, respect and decency.
So that the homeless just get the issue of having a roof over their head out their mind, and have a fixed address, and the ability to keep possessions for good
In many places there's enough vacancy to do that with either exiting appartements, or with empty office space waiting to be converted.
The answer to why it hasn't happen probably is complicated: lack of political will, ideology, the cost of building/buying appartements then maintaining and managing them so they don't turn into a shithole, NYMBY, etc