Tranni-temping

It seems to me that there are people in the world that are by nature transients- many of whom seem to be homeless. Wouldn't it be great if there were shelters where people could work for a very short period of time until they either went on a drug binge, needed to move onto another place, or started to lose their mental well-being? This way, even if a person was only capable of functioning in society part of the time, they could still make a contribution. Furthermore, since so many are transients, their jobs could be things like disseminating information to whatever place they go to. Perhaps they could give out flyers about new homeless services. And since I notice that so many homeless people like to access the internet at libraries, the shelters could have a web based network, perhaps saying what kinds of work were needed at a given shelter, or how many beds were open.

These shelters would be run by the government. And instead of giving money to the homeless, you could buy tokens, kind of like food stamps. When a street beggar asked you for money, you could just give them a token. These tokens would be good for a night's stay or a meal at one of these shelters.