One idea on helping the homeless people is to let people run hostels tax-free, to entice people to open hostels and to keep the prices low.
Salute,
Tony V.
Nationally, we have somewhere between 29 and 40 empty housing units per homeless person.
"...as of 2019, over half a million Americans don't have a home to sleep in on any given night, while almost 17 million potential homes were standing empty."
More than 10% of our housing units are empty in this country,
despite the tight housing market in much of the country.