You'll only make progress when you can propose these things without the blanket socialism/communism charges shutting you down. People have to get over those words.

I found the story of the "langars" of the Sikh community, particularly in Amristsar itself, inspiring. Free food, around the clock 7x24. And they are a poor, poor country but they give out free food, because fundamentally, really basic beans & bread meals are barely a buck a piece.