Hi Wes!
There have been so many ideas, here in the US, shoping cars that double as fold out tents, there was a tent city in Thomkin's Square park and plywood shacks in shanty towns on the east and hudson rivers, a one mile long tunnel that hundreds of our nieghbors had burrowed into the sides and were called cave people, the shanty's and tents were burned, the railway evicted the cave folks, the city puts tens of thousand in jail for petty crime, in the nation over a million of our nieghbors are in jail, people on welfare are now in vertual chain gangs to pick up garbage on the streets for less than the minimum wage, taking jobs from union workers, with no power and no real opportunity... but the one thing that has not been tried... real and decent jobs. Production jobs in the United States. An end to using the rest of the world as a sweat shop. An end to putting a kid in uniform at eighteen, sending him to a distant land to kill for American corporate capitol, and then putting him out on the street sick and drug addicted.
I whole heartedly love the spirit behind what our brother does with harmonicas, on a small scale I do the same with Vinny. But... we need a programatic end to accepting homelessness. We asign a name, street person, homeless and it has the same result as the word nigger of kike. It is a person defined by lack of expectation of success. So, what is my solution proposed? A society where the focus of the ecconomy is 100 percent employment.
Lets keep trying.
Larry