https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-09-14/california-homelessness-epidemic-licensed-tent-villages
The camps are managed by Urban Alchemy, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that has rapidly grown into a multimillion-dollar street services enterprise and embodies an elastic philosophy of shelter.
Aggressive marketing aligned with rising public discontent over homelessness made for a winning strategy. By 2021 it reported $51 million in revenue primarily from contracts for street outreach and shelter operations in San Francisco; Austin, Texas; Portland, Ore.; and Los Angeles.
far more capital can be accumulated in managing a problem than from solving a problem.
additionally, providing for a basic level of dignified existence to all people would undermine employers' power over workers. i.e. the Reserve Army of Labor / "Why The Extremely Wealthy US Doesn't Have Universal Healthcare?"
Slam dunk of an answer right here