BC Housing releases reports a year or two after the opening of their Rapid Response to Homelessness complexes and are about as positive as you can expect. Nobody is saying this is a “silver bullet” (and I can’t believe how many times it needs to be repeated that there isn’t a silver bullet, that this requires a comprehensive approach, but if people want to keep repeating themselves I’m fine to continue as well) but this is one “bullet in the chamber” of an effective solution, if that’s the kind of analogy you want to go with.
Here is one such report:
https://www.bchousing.org/publicatio...t-Outcomes.pdf