Despite this shocking figure, Israel has no concept of transitional housing for families in crisis. There are no facilities for women and children at all, and none for men requiring short-term housing during a period of acute economic crisis. Shockingly, there are only 28 beds for homeless men from Beer Sheva to Eilat. The entire Beer Sheva tent community could be housed for under US $200,000 but the government spends US $70,000 to secure court orders to vacate the tent city – keeping the homeless invisible is a greater bureaucratic priority than housing half of them with the same capital allocation. There is a stigma attached to homelessness in Israeli society. There is also widespread denial of poverty in the community. Exacerbating this problem is the policy decisions of the present Administration to transfer responsibility for most of the social needs of the population to NGO's and non-profit charities.