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Reading the list, NZ does pretty well... Right to the end...
We don't do that here
This may be anecdotal but I visited Christchurch NZ last year and walked around the whole city. I don't believe I saw a single person begging / sleeping on the street.
Compared to my small rust belt city in the US where there's homeless at every busy intersection begging and pop-up tent settlements that will frequently be destroyed by cops. Bigger cities and/or the West Coast ones like Portland have way more of this type of thing.
Mental health care in NZ is abysmal.
I'm not sure about Christchurch, but my small town of 25k people, has people begging. Homelessness in bigger centres is visible.
We do try to help, but it's getting worse.