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My assumption, based on how we treat them, is that they are supposed to die quiet deaths of despair.
That's the capitalist way. There have to be some people whose misery incentivizes the rest of us to stick with our shitty jobs and make money for the owners.
Combine that with the incentives for private companies to build houses being all wrong under capitalism, so that they'll only build when there's a big profit to be made, and the people's trained allergy to investment in the public good, and you get this situation where every city has thousands of homeless people, everyone knows it's a terrible problem, but no one will do a thing to help them.
The US is moving to a novel strategy of internment camps and forced labor for unhomed people. It's just the latest steps in "fuck humanity make the rich richer" approach to destroying the Republic.
I'm sure Alberta would be on board with a similar approach to building a crueler world.