The cruel way forwards, is to force people to accept these substandard, dangerous conditions.
The way of kindness, is to improve the conditions at the worst places, to the level of the units that people don't refuse.
And "reducing the bureaucratic delay" involves both simplifying the application process, and not *checks notes* throwing away homeless people's paperwork every few months in sweeps. "Still gathering paperwork" sometimes means reapplying for documents thrown away in a sweep. 😢