You do realize that I have a job, work full time, have very low expenses, and am still left with very little savings? Good luck getting a job without a mailing address as well. Many homeless people do not have ID, theft/loss of items is a very common problem. This is a barrier to employment. Getting clean clothes? Barrier to employment. Showering regularly? Barrier to employment. The incredibly high likelihood of being arrested simply for being homeless? Well you tend to get fired for a no call/no show, so barrier to employment.

And I guess fuck the mentally ill ones? There are shelters, but there's not nearly enough resources to deal with the homeless problem in large cities that way. They simply are not well funded enough, lack volunteers, and are a band aid fix for a systemic issue.

How does arresting people for sleeping on the sidewalk do anything to combat the core reasons for homelessness? It doesn't. They go and do convict labor for a little bit, make money for the jail system and the cycle repeats.

Talk to homeless people if you can, and figure out their story. Yeah, a lot of them are addicts, but sleeping on the street for a few years will do that to you. Don't judge them so harshly, you are far closer to that end of the spectrum than the other.