I think that’s the problem with our current democratic systems everywhere. They are more concerned with the votes in the next election than with long term planning and wellbeing for the population.
There was a homeless man in the news some years ago because he started a blog from the computer in his local library : https://thehomelessguy.wordpress.com/
He has not written for the last year so I hope he has now found a home.
Ayya Yeshe frequently remarked that the people in the slum all have mobile phones and are on Facebook, but hardly have a roof over their heads.