Why are homeless shelter so bad that people feel the need to spend the day at the library?
Shelter is a far higher priority than reading.
Shelter is a far higher priority than reading.
The problem is similar to what happened when low income housing (the "projects") concentrated the poor into economic ghettos.
If they're "poor", don't they have to rent or buy low income housing, and so "concentrate into economic ghettos"?
There is no policy concentrating the poor with each other, any more than there is a policy that concentrates the rich with each other. The market makes available different products, and different economic market segments purchase different products. With a policy, or without a policy, the poor will live with the poor.
And form "economic ghettos".