I know a few colleges that have brought animals to campus for wellness/mental health, but it's typically either trained service/emotional support dogs or your typical petting zoo animals that you can feel like goats or pigs.

Overcoming addiction, getting a job, overcoming mental health challenges are all incredibly difficult things to do even if you have a home. Expecting people to do any of those things while living on the street is doomed to fail.

If you're on the south shore driving all the way out to the tip of Hull by the high school can be a really nice view