Do you think increasing funding for shelters will truly help, or will it lead to other challenges?

I think increasing the housing supply and helping these folks get back on their feet through some kind of special rehab program for the homeless needs to be made, a lot of homeless people, a lot of mental health issues, lots of drug addiction, it would be a disservice to those vulnerable folks to just throw them in a shelter whilst not having a turnover or rehabilitation process to get them back into the work force and general productive society.

I believe that by increasing funding that homeless shelters are given will help to promote and provide these resources to individuals that are unhoused.

There needs to be more than just an increase of funding for shelters. Entire programs and even entire campuses dedicated to the homeless that's backed by government grants and funds is the way to go. Mental health and rehab facilities included on the campuses as well as schooling for GEDs and Union Trade Jobs are mandatory. Also include facilities for watching children for homeless families and adults.

It will help, more homeless shelters means less people sleeping on the streets, which means drug and alcohol use under the homeless can be monitored more.

yes but we also need to create programs that can help the homeless get out of the shelters and be able to support themselves

I believe that increasing funding for shelters can be beneficial. There can be many homeless people that set up camp in certain areas that may be uncomfortable for them. If funding for shelters is provided, it may lead to better opportunities for people to get back on their feet.

yes but no because they need structure to get back on their feet

I feel that regardless of what the people want, the government will always find a way to screw us over.

I don't think it would make issues worse, but I do believe there should be better-funded programs that can help re-integrate homeless people into society.

This would be a good start but what we really need is a public housing and mental health program such as the highly successful one in Finland. We need to work to get people back on their feet not just grant them temporary shelter.

There are many homeless working people who cannot afford housing. This will help them have shelter.

It may help a little, but it is not the solution. The problem lies in drug issues and working wages.

I think increasing funding to homeless shelters will definitely help, without leading to many challanges

yes, also decriminalize the act of being homeless in public

I think we have a moral obligation to help people who have no housing. More funding won't solve the problem, and some people will probably already be homeless, but until we get the cost of housing under control, this might be our best intermediate solution.

I think ithas potential to help as long as it is used and distributed properly. However, it COULD lea to challenges like having to create ways to generate said funds like taxing and such

It's difficult to say as there isn't a one-size-fits-all kind of solution. Many homeless individuals are escaping bad situations, or a major event occurred to make them lose the ability to have shelter like job loss, illness, disability, or any number of other reasons. More funding for shelters and assisting folks to get back on their feet is a net good for the community. There is a portion of homeless individuals that either don't want help or are dangerous and need more specialized help. I believe it will lead to challenges, but also truly help in the long run.

We need the funding to go up proportionate to the number of homeless in order to serve those without shelter.

I think we should focus on a permanent solution to the issue of homelessness

Yes it will help because the better the foundation for the homeless, the more they are able to get out of homelessness and contribute to society.

It would help extremely with the shelters money and it will skyrocket extremely high

Increased funding for homeless shelters would help a lot because there would be fewer people on the street.

It's likely that it would be advantageous, but of course it could very well bring other challenges to the table at the cost of having more of our citizens in housing.

Unless the implementation is very poor, generally increasing funding will improve conditions, even if it is less than linear. This is not mutually exclusive with other challenges, however. More money may often mean more overhead, for example. Ultimately, it depends on the implementation of the funding increase.

Probably lead to other challenges. A lot of homeless people are dealing with mental health issues that need to be resolved so they don't become homeless again in the future.

I think it could help, because increasing funding could make them better places for homeless people to stay, and if someone has shelter it can help them get off the streets.