And fast food jobs are paying $42k a year to start, with medical and 401k matching.
The majority of homeless people are there because they are drug addicts. And while there are people that are just down on their luck, there are some pretty decent programs in place to help them.
Giving them $600 a month, letting them sleep on the sidewalk, giving them clean needles, and spending 90% of public safety budget on Narcon and emergency services to save them when they OD is not helping them.