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The dumbest part of the US's "fuck you poor people, die in the gutter" approach to homelessness is that it's more expensive than using a system to provide homes to people:
"A further study of Finland's Housing First program found that giving a homeless person a home and support resulted in cost savings for the society of at least €15,000 per person per year, with potentially even higher cost savings in the long term.[7] These cost savings for society are in part a result of reductions in usage of emergency healthcare, police, and the justice system when homeless people are given a home."
[7]"London wants to eradicate homelessness. Here's how Finland is doing it". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC). 28 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
(From Wikipedia)
Children are especially vulnerable and costly to not provide housing to. The US is, at its core, an essentially a selfish and heartless nation. You can removed all you want about that stance, but a budget is a statement of your values. Those values don't include helping people and they don't include being cost effective, so what is being achieved here except paying more to be cruel to children and their families?
The cruelty is the point. Becoming homeless is a constantly looming threat for most people, so they need to keep working to afford a home (or rather rent one). This'll keep them busy and fatiqued, which makes changing their situation a whole lot harder.