To make progress in solving homelessness we have to acknowledge two realities: Capitalism and Democracy, as systems, are the world’s best. They motivate and elevate almost everyone – and the ones that admittedly fall through the cracks are epitomized by the homeless. But Capitalism does even more than usually raising standards of living. Capitalism makes simple, obvious ideas “cheap”.

Shelter is not a complex idea! We have known how to “make a house” for centuries, if not millennia. If you acknowledge that the homeless have fallen through the cracks of our awesome system, then you can focus on the cheapest, fastest way to manually elevate these human beings so that they can live in a less expensive version of our affluent world – thereby preventing humanitarian and public health tragedies and preventing some of the conflict that is inevitable when haves and have-nots live on top of each other.

With the right attitude you can do so in such a way that is both high tech, low cost and politically expedient.