Well there is the fact that it can't be progressive to be in solidarity with people, on one hand, and lecture them from a point of paternalist superiority on the other.

People aren't in the streets in the US because they're refusing EFFECTIVE means of help- they're being offered no effective means of help- the shelters are universally dangerous, filthy and underfunded and it's not possible to get someone into a better life by coercing them into some sort of treatment.

Maybe try actually listening to the houseless.

There was no way to have helped Mr. Neely by throwing him into mental wellness incarceration.