Utah threw and is throwing tons of money at homelessness to a lot of success. It's also as close to a monocultural state as you can get in this country.
The problems with funding homelessness are social, and of course state and local (zoning laws, NIMBYs). You can indict the feds a bit because HUD is inefficient at counting rural homeless individuals, but homelessness is not a "we don't have enough money" issue and cutting defense spending wouldn't suddenly mean that homelessness was dealt with in any significant way.
What is with the low-level posting across multiple threads?