M2, I have to disagree. I've watched some of the most caring people I've ever met do backflips to help the most undeserving, mean-spirited, rotten-to-the-core people I've ever had the displeasure to meet, and watched them figuratively spit in their faces. They DIDN'T want to see them die (going to waste), so they put themselves on the line and had it thrown back in their face. One in particular was given chance after chance, had people practically begging him to take the help being offered, and he botched it. About a year later he was dead.

People like him are why, even though I would help build it with my own hands, I know providing a shower room and laundry facilities won't work unless it is monitored 24-7 with guards on-premises to prevent it from being burned to the ground by a hardened group of street people whom abuse everything they are given. They make everyone else look bad. As much as I agree with you on many of your ideas, someone has to pay for it all. Who pays...?