content: The government.   We should clarify 'government' because if this is NYC, it's been a private regime for decades. There's regularly housing articles of how NYC almost always has >50k homeless families, which are used to justify paying the local hotels $100/night to house, or seize failed hotels and buildings to make "public housing", meanwhile there's >250k empty 'family size' apartments.  The neighborhoods they're placing the homeless shelters are to drive people out of the area and plummet housing prices.  They place homeless shelters in areas thriving or recently invested in, drive the people out, and shuffle it around year after year.    It's a system, like monopoly, except rather than it being a game where you having nothing and we start over, they let you scrape by so the system appears survivable but too large to replace.