What does DTK need?

[tomh009]

My personal view is that helping the existing people is an insanely difficult job with awful success rates.

What isn’t as difficult: stopping new people from falling through the cracks in our decaying welfare state in the first place. Housing, transport, education, health, all normal public goods that we are letting decay on purpose. The symptoms of that decay are seen in drugs and homelessness (and people moving away).

I don't think it's impossible to help the currently homeless people, but you are certainly correct in that preventing problems is much easier (and less expensive!) than trying to fix them afterward.