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Assuming a 3-bedroom house, at average home prices in major cities(Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, et cetera), something like 2.5 thousand houses housing 7.25 thousand people.
Wouldn't actually help to build them though, since we already have enough housing. A good portion of homeless are mentally ill, on hard drugs, previously trafficked or governmentally shafted people, or just too poor. The houses are there, there are literally whole sky-scraper apartments in New York that are empty. Whole urban sprawls that have been empty for years now.
We aren't like Japan here in the US where just making the houses depreciate instead of appreciate will fix the problem. Its like 3 much bigger problems wearing the trench-coat of one problem.
There aren't enough houses where people want to live. There are plenty of dirt cheap houses in rural nowhere with no jobs within a four hour drive. There are plenty of empty second homes in developments with no access to any public transit or services that would be unlivable to poor people even if we gave them the houses for free. There are few enough empty units in New York and the like that the owners reasonably believe they can, with patience and strategy, rent them out or sell for a profit.
A significant chunk of homeless people, the "chronically homeless", have the challenges you referenced and are difficult to support into stable housing. But the majority of homeless people, the "transiently homeless", are just poor and had one too many hard knocks to be able to hold onto their housing unit. With the high cost of housing - driven by unit shortage where they live - being one of those knocks.