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So what's your point then, that homeless people are a lost cause and therefore shouldn't be helped? Attempts to house the homeless have resulted in property damage in the past, so we shouldn't bother?
Perhaps you should take a step back and try asking why those projects failed and how to fix the problems instead of concluding that free housing programs could never work.
If you really want to analyze the situation with some nuance then maybe try looking at real sources instead of opinion articles from right-wing "news" sites:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/howardcenter/caring-for-covid-homeless/stories/homeless-funding-housing-first.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151537/
https://www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/publication/preventive-effect-housing-first-health-care-utilization-and-costs-among-chronically
https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/employment-experiences-of-formerly-homeless-adults-with-serious-m
My point is that a lot of homeless people aren't to be trusted to take care of the space they live in. There would have to be some screening to make sure that these people are capable of not destroying the public good they are being offered for free. I don't think it's really debatable that there are some truly awful homeless people, violent, mean, entitled, and not fit to live in a proper society. It's something people need to face the facts on. So we need to find out how to help the good homeless people before we let the bad ones ruin it for the rest of them.