I hated the Prisoner. It never damn well seemed to end. How DID it end in the end?
PS Portmeirion would be a nice place to live if one were homeless....(!)
Without sounding I hope TOO much like a typical Tory-voting middle aged middle class voter, isn't one of the 'problems' about homelessness is not just that folk are homeless....it is that those who are homeless all too often have severe 'other problems' from mental illness to addiction etc etc etc.
'Just' providing them with a roof over their heads is not enough to turn their lives around ....a HUGE investment in remedying the 'harms' done to them that caused those 'other problems' is what is needed.
Homelessness is often only a 'symptom' not the problem itself????
Though yes, NOT having a roof over your head has to be sorted....being 'homed' may not be a cure, but it is an essential start....
(For al the above, obviously 'some' homeless people are simply those who cannot afford rent etc.) (I wonder what the ratio is though?)
(I do sometimes think that for the mentally ill/addicted homeless re-housing them all in a Butlins or whatever, and letting them have as much of their 'substance of abuse of choice' as they want might be the 'happiest' outcome?????? Shades of 'soma' from Brave New World, but isn't it better to be happy in a soma dream than unhappy in a cruel real world, if that is your only choice??)
(Then focus MASSIVELY on stopping any MORE folk ending up with such intractable problems....)