Make homeless work/earn a place to stay that has a roof, bed, toilet, meals, and drug/alcohol free.
They can help clean up the streets/hiways/urban trash and other homeless camp remains, or manual labor jobs.
If they don't work for this place to live, they go to confined mental institutions or homeless encampments where it's an enclosed area that can't be escaped unless they're willing to work/live in the work shelters.
Tough love.
Offer social programs and job help to those at the work shelters to help climb out of their bottomed out existence.
They can help clean up the streets/hiways/urban trash and other homeless camp remains, or manual labor jobs.
If they don't work for this place to live, they go to confined mental institutions or homeless encampments where it's an enclosed area that can't be escaped unless they're willing to work/live in the work shelters.
Tough love.
Offer social programs and job help to those at the work shelters to help climb out of their bottomed out existence.