No magical third categories

 Language can describe so much more than what is actually possible and intellectuals split hairs to escape obvious, crass, low status conclusions. 

A homeless encampment in the woods is a camp, an encampment on Main Street is also a camp. A camp in a building is a flop house. 

A building where you are not allowed to leave and they use violence to control you is a prison. A building where you are not allowed to leave and they use chemicals to control you is an asylum. A building where an addict lives and where the inmates are not controlled is a flop house. 

A prison where the inmates die all the time is a concentration camp. A camp where the campers die all the time and are not allowed to leave is a concentration camp. A camp where the inmates die all the time but they are allowed to leave is just a regular drug camp. 

There are only the following categories: flophouse, camp, prison, asylum, and concentration camp. These are like platonic ideals, they are immutable forms and whenever something tries to be anything else it winds up being one of these categories.

If you round up all the drug addicts and kill them you're going to have to house them somewhere before you slaughter them. That's a concentration camp. If you decide not to kill them and just prevent them from leaving that's a prison. If you decide not to kill them or let them leave and also restrain them with chemicals that's an asylum. If you give them recreational drugs and don't let them leave that's also a type of asylum. If you let them leave that's a flop house.

Reality is actually pretty simple and people are making it complicated. There is no magical extra category that is somehow perfect and contains none of the bad things associated with any of the other categories. The bad things always remain because they are inherent properties of the people involved in those categories. The categories are inescapable because the properties of the personalities of those people are inescapable. There is nothing that involves homeless people and the mentally ill that does not eventually become a flop house, camp, prison, asylum, or concentration camp. Massive public housing works with no barrier to entry screening out the degenerate become massive skyscraper flop houses. Housing first options are just flop houses. Refusing to do anything about the problem is just a homeless encampment in the downtown area. Deporting them all to the woods is a homeless encampment in the woods. Reality is not magic and idealism is actually quite evil because the idealist prevents any realistic solution from ever being done.