I think you've missed the fact that he's crowdsourcing the $10,000/home cost through a GoFundMe. He has the money in hand, and that money could be applied in other ways than the one he's chosen. That's where my criticism comes from. He's actively choosing to focus on his preferred solution when that money could easily be used in other, more effective ways, if he wasn't blinkered by the paternalistic way that we talk about homelessness.

And I have absolutely bent over backwards to make it clear that I don't hold any personal ill will towards this man for what he's doing. I respect him as a person, my only argument is with his choice of solution, because it is emblematic of a much deeper societal problem that he is no way personally responsible for. I'm not going to go back and start quoting my own previous comments in this thread, because even the most cursory read of them would make it clear that this "chip on my shoulder" only exists in your imagination.