It's got nothing to do with what "average voter" wants. You can't medically institutionalize anyone in this country anymore without their own or some sort of familial consent. You have to actively threatening to hurt yourself or someone else. But having enough fentanyl to kill 3 horses on your person doesn't count. That's a result of case law precedent. So that leaves only criminal charges, but understandably we don't want to lock up the users into a criminal system for being addicts. Good luck ever creating a bill in any state to undo that by giving the government more power to lock people away in mental institutions.

And that's making the false assumption people who are homeless are all drug addicts and need to be institutionalized. Housing needs to be increased but that's a systemic economic issue that would require a consistent domestic policy for more than a few years at a time, but half the country can't decide on if they want free ice cream or a kick in the nuts.