It is a fact that SOME of these people for whatever reason choose to be homeless. If it is due to mental illness it can be very difficult to remedy.
The fact that government has cut funding is only partly to blame for the councils lack of action, they still have a budget and to a degree can choose where to spend it.
Maybe we need to look in more detail at where the council DO spend their money and ask if it is a good use of their (our) money.
I suspect there are cuts that could be made in some areas to make way for better services to the disadvantaged but the question is would our elected "leaders" make those choices?
I suspect not, there seems to be an appetite for headline grabbing spending to the detriment of necessary spending and we all know about councillors ego's don't we.