Help for the homeless is founded on Judeo-Christian traditional narratives, tending to the suffering of individuals for its own sake, as what orders of Nuns always did. it was about helping people as they were, and as needed; a rather singular mission, and not so much about societal integration (eg. no idealogical distinction between poverty and terminal illness) It's interesting to consider how this foundational narrative changed and currently intersects with modern secular society and our economic preoccupations/values